China encounters Darwinism

A case of intercultural rhetoric

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9239283
AutoresXiaosui Xiao (0000-0002-9346-3359, Hong Kong Baptist University, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume81
Fascículo1
Páginas83-99
Data de publicação1995-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQuarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00335639509384098
OpenAlexW1988078715
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas11

An important but neglected path to understanding intercultural communication is to explore how influential works of one culture are adapted to the needs, circumstances and thought patterns of another. Yan Fu's Heavenly Evolution, a rhetorical “translation” of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, the publication of which resulted in a rapid spread of a version of Darwinism in Confucian China at the turn of this century, is analyzed as a case study. It shows the conditions for the rhetorical role of the native interpreter in dealing with Darwinian ideas and terms that were originally in conflict with Chinese modes of thought

China · Darwinism · Epistemology · Intercultural communication · Interpreter · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Social Darwinism · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies