Kang Youwei 康有爲 (1858-1927) and India: The Indian Travels of a Cosmopolitan Utopian

The idea of raising the question of Kang Youwei’s cosmopolitanism and, more specifically, his Indian experience of it, emerged when I informed Professor Anne Cheng of an upcoming trip to China at the invitation of Qingdao Municipality and its cultural association (青岛市文学艺术界联合会), on the occasion of a symposium about Kang Youwei and calligraphy. I was on my way back to France after four years in China and four more years in India. The question of cosmopolitanism is a delicate one in my view, esp..