Better Science and Better Race
Social Darwinism and Chinese Eugenics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3301762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuehtsen Juliette Chung (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 793-802 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/679426 |
| PMID | 25665386 |
| OpenAlex | W2321438735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay explores the variegated roles played by racial, eugenic, and Social Darwinist discourse in China over roughly the last century. Using Japan as a parallel for comparison, it analyzes the introduction of the term "eugenics" into Japanese and Chinese. It then locates the deployment of eugenics and Social Darwinism as counterimperial discourse in East Asia. It offers a brief history of eugenics thinking in China across the twentieth century, focusing on the Chinese eugenicist Pan Guangdan, who used race as a category of analysis yet without any sense of hierarchy. He was critically aware of the scientific basis of eugenics and helped craft the study of eugenics in China, from biology to sociology, from economics to ethnology
China · Darwinism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eugenics · Hierarchy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Social Darwinism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Medical History and Research · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |