...Vipan Chandra Today, Social Darwinism as a doctrine is only recalled in historical contexts, but looking around we still find its echoes, sans the phrase, everywhere. International competitions in commerce, trade, culture, military might, ethnic ambitions, and athletic events continue to show...

...Andrew J. Nathan China and Charles Darwin . By James Reeve Pusey . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1983 . xi, 544 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 127 rather...

... conventionally been understood in a scientistic and secularistic light. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this article revisits Tianyan lun —the Chinese translation of Thomas Henry Huxley's Evolution and Ethics and the single most influential book in initiating late-Qing intellectuals into social Darwinism...

... articles in journals and magazines. The writings of John Stuart Mill ranked next in popularity. Other Western thinkers—such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, Guizot, Haeckel, T. H. Huxley, Darwin, Bentham, and Bagehot—received much less public attention. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954...

...-Century China is a welcome addition to an unjustifiably ignored field. COLLETT COX University of Washington China and Charles Darwin. By JAMES REEVE PUSEY. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xi, 544 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25. So pervasive was the metaphor of the struggle...

... histories and identities were ultimately very relevant. John Darwin s afterward re ects usefully on the collection s redrawing of a colonial world, evoking empire as a jerry-built shack (p. 250) that was bolstered by the serial and involuntary migrations that accompanied colonial expansion. Imperialism...

... as superior to that of the West. Treat argues that one of the main factors in this shift was the influence of Social Darwinism; having studied its ideas in Japan, “by 1922. . . Yi's thinking was perhaps primed for an accommodation with Japan.” Social Darwinism was certainly a contributing factor...

... mechanisms in the chapter by Göbel and Heberer, most of the contributors simply conducted “generalized Darwinism” analyses (p. 11), focusing only on change over time driven by state-society interaction (or central-local interaction). If scholars take on Orion Lewis's and Sven Steinmo's charge to “take...

.... Moreover, Yokoyama's matter-of-fact assumption of the possibility of "objective" and "accurate" observation avoids the crucial epistemological knot. In relation to "open-mindedness," he proposes the scientific "secularism" of Darwin and Huxley, as if they were value-free observers. I wish Yokoyama had read...

... and physical evolution (including pendence. Darwin's theory). Let us pick up some exam- His treatment of the problems of the theory ples illustrating above. of Incarnation and other "stray problems re- The author has devoted his first chapter to quiring explanation" shows his continuous ef- "explaining" some...

... a scientific authority to accompany the religious. “National” histories gradually came to be understood as struggles among differentially endowed “racial” types. In the wake of Darwin's contributions of the mid-nineteenth century, race became more clearly understood as subspecies . Although Darwin's message...

.... But by then, much of the Western Enlightenment had been filtered through ideas proposed by Charles Darwin, and even more by Herbert Spencer. This fed into a Japanese sense of racial superiority because, presumably, the “survival of the fittest” could be interpreted as meaning that Japan's rapid modernization after...

..., is that among the many ideas that influenced Yi—Confucianism, Tonghak ideology, Christian humanism, pacifism, Buddhism, “Nihonism,” Nietzschean political philosophy—social Darwinism was powerful among them. His intellectual trajectory saw a trust in science replace a belief in Western monotheism, and a passion...

... days and still beyond. Moreover, Yokoyama's matter-of-fact assumption of the possibility of "objective" and "accurate" observation avoids the crucial epistemological knot. In relation to "open-mindedness," he proposes the scientific "secularism" of Darwin and Huxley, as if they were value-free...

... of sickening horror, and secrecy and espionage carried to perfection; "hence he views the Plato-like Gandhian message as a "tragic commentary on the transfer of loyalty of the modern man from Buddha, Mahavira and Christ to Lamarck, Darwin and Haeckel" (p. 412). Here the lamentable assumption that current...

... lishi de chubu kaocha” [A Preliminary Investigation on the History of Our Country’s Concept of Minzu]. Minzu Yanjiu 2 : 5 – 11 . Pusey James. 1983 . China and Charles Darwin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Robinson Michael. 1984 . “National Identity in the Thought of Sin...

... families in Broome and Darwin and facilitated their postwar struggle for Australian citizenship. Martinez and Vickers's history of the pearl frontier assembles an innovative perspective on the modern Asian past by showing how interconnected seas can reveal interlocked stories of social, cultural, economic...

... . 1978 . “Korea's Response to Social Darwinism.” Korea Journal , April, pp. 36 – 47 ; May, pp. 42–49. Kibaek Yi . 1979 . Han'guk kaehwa sasang yon'gu [A study of Korea's enlightenment thought]. Seoul : Ilchogak . Pyŏngdo Yi . 1958 . “Saga rosŏ ŭi Yuktang” [Yuktang as a historian...

... conception of the roots of life. This cellular conception may be taken as emblematic of the kind of pressures and challenges that modern writers in many parts of the world would inevitably face if and when they wanted to reflect on the problem of life after Darwin. As far as China and East Asia were...

... and Restore the North) and Song Tuat Luc (A Tale of Two Years). Both are described briefly in his autobiographies, and in Dang Thai Mai, p. 62. 5 Nien Bieu , p. 33. 6 Dang Thai Mai, p. 33. The quote on Darwin is in Nien Bieu , p. 32. 7 This also is evidently not extant, although...