Jin, Xiaoxing (Author)
The earliest references to Darwin in China, which came by way of the network of Protestant missionaries, emerged in the early 1870s: the principle of general transformism and ideas about human origins were transmitted to the Chinese intellectual landscape. Only with the “evolutionary sensation” aroused by Yan Fu, in the mid-1890s, did Chinese readers begin to learn of Darwinian principles like the “struggle for existence” and “natural selection.” Translation of the Origin began much later, in 1902, and the initial effort was misleading. In his translation of the first five chapters of the Origin, published before 1906, Ma Junwu used linguistic strategies to modify Darwin’s texts so as to reflect Yan’s progressive transformism. But in his 1920 translation of the book in its entirety, Ma redid his earlier work. The complete Chinese Origin did not generate a sensation in the biological community. Even so, the deliberate selection, absorption, and appropriation of Darwinian ideas by the Chinese over the next several decades assimilated the new evolution into their own cultural setting. The case of “Darwin in China” details a specific Chinese context that deepens our understanding of how audiences for new scientific theories can be actively involved in the processes of appropriation and universalizing, while also disseminating, modifying, and assimilating Darwinian ideas in local context.
...More
Article
Xiaoxing Jin;
(2019)
Translation and Transmutation: The Origin of Species in China
(/isis/citation/CBB682492481/)
Chapter
Guowei, Shen;
(2014)
Science in Translation: Yan Fu's Role
(/isis/citation/CBB001213955/)
Article
Jiang, Gongcheng;
Luo, Yuming;
(2004)
Pan Guangdan and Evolutionism in China
(/isis/citation/CBB000401217/)
Article
Jesse J. Chapman;
(2017)
Lao-Zhuang in the Vernacular: Two Evolutionary Readings
(/isis/citation/CBB267417662/)
Book
Jones, Andrew F.;
(2011)
Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001212356/)
Book
Caporael, Linnda R.;
Griesemer, James R.;
Wimsatt, William C.;
(2014)
Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
(/isis/citation/CBB001510224/)
Article
Kyriakou, Kyriakos;
Skordoulis, Constantine;
(2010)
The Reception of Ernest Haeckel's Ideas in Greece
(/isis/citation/CBB001220617/)
Book
Zarimis, Maria;
(2015)
Darwin's Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880--1930s)
(/isis/citation/CBB001551568/)
Article
Hamlin, Kimberly A.;
(2011)
The “Case of a Bearded Woman”: Hypertrichosis and the Construction of Gender in the Age of Darwin
(/isis/citation/CBB001201814/)
Book
Brock, Darryl;
(2010)
China and Darwinian Evolution: Influence on Chinese Intellectual and Social Development
(/isis/citation/CBB001022773/)
Article
Nash, Richard;
(2015)
William Keith Brooks and the Naturalist's Defense of Darwinism in the Late-Nineteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001510220/)
Thesis
Pearce, Trevor Richard;
(2010)
“A Perfect Chaos”: Organism-Environment Interaction and the Causal Factors of Evolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001562740/)
Article
Hall, Brian K.;
(2006)
“Evolutionist and Missionary,” the Reverend John Thomas Gulick (1832--1923). Part II. Coincident or Ontogenetic Selection---The Baldwin Effect
(/isis/citation/CBB001230143/)
Article
Hall, Brian K.;
(2006)
“Evolutionist and Missionary,” the Reverend John Thomas Gulick (1832--1923). Part I: Cumulative Segregation---Geographical Isolation
(/isis/citation/CBB001230142/)
Book
Jones, Jeannette Eileen;
Sharp, Patrick B.;
(2010)
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
(/isis/citation/CBB001033825/)
Article
Hopwood, Nick;
(2015)
The Cult of Amphioxus in German Darwinism; or, Our Gelatinous Ancestors in Naples' Blue and Balmy Bay
(/isis/citation/CBB001510262/)
Article
Silverbark, Thord Heinonen;
(2012)
Den naturliga skapelsen. Tidig svensk darwinism och religiös liberalism
(/isis/citation/CBB001320376/)
Book
Catherine Jami;
(2014)
Mobilité humaine et circulation des savoirs techniques (xviie-xixe siècles)
(/isis/citation/CBB903217129/)
Article
Yulia Frumer;
(2018)
Translating Words, Building Worlds: Meteorology in Japanese, Dutch, and Chinese
(/isis/citation/CBB142366610/)
Chapter
Mathias Vigouroux;
(2013)
Commerce des livres et diplomatie : la transmission de Chine et de Corée vers le Japon des savoirs médicaux liés à la pratique de l’acuponcture et de la moxibustion (1603-1868)
(/isis/citation/CBB974717424/)
Be the first to comment!