A Time of Upheaval

摘要

The year during which I served as acting editor while David Wilson was away (1971-72) came amidst "great changes" both in China and in China studies. Indeed it was a time of "great upheaval." While the anarchic phase of the Cultural Revolution was giving way to one of shaky stability enforced by state violence, how to look at China had become part of a fierce controversy both in academic and political terms among Western scholars of Asia. Not surprisingly, both the upheavals in China and among China scholars were reflected in the pages of this journal.