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306:‘objective’ social and political conditions which have encouraged its growth or in terms of its effect on the masses.” The Communists came to power “on the crest of a popular movement” but this did not mean that they were the “mystic embodiment of the popular will.” Future decisions “will be made by the political leaders and not by the surging masses.” To say that leaders would automatically continue to express the needs and aspirations of the masses would be to “construct a myth designed to sanction in advance all their future activities.” 329:. Earlier scholars had not thought Yan of interest, assuming that he had simply misunderstood these influential thinkers and their late 19th-century liberalism and individualism. But Schwartz used the choices that Yan Fu made in his translations to reflect on the ways in which the pursuit of wealth and power in the West had subverted individual values, even within its own liberal tradition. In 1968 he published a collection of essays following developments of the 1950s and 1960s: 305:
published by Harvard's Russian Research Center in 1951. The Introduction says he will investigate the movement's “ideas, intentions, and ambitions” over a "limited period,” from 1918 to 1933, and only “in terms of its doctrinal frame of reference and of its internal political relations,” not “the
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He taught at Harvard his entire career, starting in 1950 as an instructor in the departments of history and government. He held the Leroy B. Williams Chair in History and Government from 1975 until he retired in 1987. He was president of the
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and working on code-breaking. After the war he earned an M.A. in East Asian studies at Harvard and went on to gain a Ph.D. there, studying under
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The secret speeches of Chairman Mao : from the hundred flowers to the great leap forward by Zedong Mao
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Schwartz's early works studied the relations between political thought and action. His first book was
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The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955–2005.
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Schwartz was a member of the Harvard faculty, teaching in Cambridge until he retired in 1987.
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Ideas across cultures : essays on Chinese thought in honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz.
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was published by Harvard University Press, and is held in 850 libraries, according to
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Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Jul., 1987, vol. 9, no. 1/2, p. 161
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Schwartz was born in East Boston and grew up in a poor family, but graduated from
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who wrote on a wide range of topics in Chinese politics and intellectual history.
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Ideas across cultures: essays on Chinese thought in honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz
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Ideas across cultures: essays on Chinese thought in honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz
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The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Jan., 1986, no. 15, p. 150–153.
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in his honour was held after his retirement, and published in 1990 as
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The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug., 1988, vol. 47, no. 3, p. 621–623
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The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University,
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Schwartz, Benjamin; Paul A Cohen and Merle Goldman. (1990).
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Crawford, Robert B. (June 1987). "Benjamin I. Schwartz.
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In 1983–1984, Schwartz served as acting director of the
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Reflections on the May Fourth movement: a symposium.
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Reflections on the May Fourth movement: a symposium
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(2005). 664:Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). 677:Held in 1546 academic libraries. 297:Scholarly work and contributions 23:American sinologist (1916–1999) 910:References and further reading 781:The American Historical Review 411:Schwartz, Benjamin I. (1951), 358:The American Historical Review 291:Harvard University Asia Center 183: 153: 139: 1: 1013:Association for Asian Studies 932:Price, Don C. (May 1, 2000). 311:In Search of Wealth and Power 221:Association for Asian Studies 382:The Journal of Asian Studies 333:(Harvard University Press). 18:Benjamin Schwartz (linguist) 1641: 1620:Boston Latin School alumni 927:. 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Benjamin Schwartz (linguist)
Boston, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alma mater
Harvard University
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
political scientist
sinologist
Association for Asian Studies
Boston Latin
Japanese
United States Army
Second World War
John King Fairbank
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
festschrift
ISBN
978-0-674-44225-2
Harvard University Asia Center
Yan Fu
John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
WorldCat
The American Historical Review
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

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