Translation and transmutation: the Origin of Species in China

• Published in: The British journal for the history of science p. 1
• Main Author: Jin, Xiaoxing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 27.12.2018

Darwinian ideas were developed and radically transformed when they were transmitted to the alien intellectual background of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. The earliest references to Darwin in China appeared in the 1870s through the writings of Western missionaries who provided t...