This article reflects on the circulation and transformation of the concept of"local knowledge"in the ac-ademic circles in London and Beijing.It aims to shed light on the ways in which a"keyword"became inter-twined with the debate between the universalists and particularists in the West and with the rivalry between Chi-nese culturologists and pan-power social scientists near the end of the 20th century.Key to the transformations of the concept is the re-emergence of an old idea in new forms in the intellectual world and in the varied approach-es to particular problematics.The same transformations have continued to take place,even in the efforts of op-posing"local knowledge",for instance,in the author's own endeavors to re-pattern the cosmological thoughts of different cultures,to give world status to"local knowledge",and to break through the barrier between univer-sality and particularity.
local knowledgeculturepoweruniversalitycosmopolitanism
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