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This study evaluates Darwin's theory of evolution as a stimulus to Chinese political changes and philosophic challenge to traditional Chinese beliefs. Pusey bas
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Pages: 561
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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Although Charles Darwin never visited China, his ideas landed there with force. Darwinism was the first great Western theory to make an impact on the Chinese an
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Frank Dikötter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Dikötter writes accessible history and has won the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for his book Mao's Great Famine. The author shows how and why notions o
The Book That Changed America
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Authors: Randall Fuller
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A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race
One Long Argument
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Ernst Mayr
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The great evolutionist Mayr elucidates the subtleties of Darwin’s thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual heirs—A. R. Wallace, T. H. Huxley,