Overview
- A collection of academic articles most representative of Pan’s insights on sociobiology, ethnology and eugenics
- Offers an excellent point of entry into Pan's ideas on population and eugenics, his polemics on family and marriage, and his intellectual positioning and self-fashioning
- Allows the reader to travel through history to appreciate the richness, elegance and refinement of the predecessors' English and enjoy the beauty of it
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: China Academic Library (CHINALIBR)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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About this book
This book is a collection of English articles by Pan Guangdan, one of China’s most distinguished sociologists and eugenicists and also a renowned expert in education. Pan is a prolific scholar, whose collected works number some fourteen volumes. Pan's daughters Pan Naigu, Pan Naimu and Pan Naihe—all scholars of anthropology and sociology—began editing their father's published works and surviving manuscripts around 1978. The collected articles, written between 1923 and 1945, are representative of Pan’s insights on sociobiology, ethnology and eugenics, covering topics such as Christianity, opium, domestic war and China-Japan relations.
The title of the book is taken from the fascinating two-part article “Socio-biological Implications in Confucianism”, which essentially reworks Confucius as a kind of “forefather” of socio-biological and eugenic thinking, showing Pan's promotion of “traditional” values.
These articles, mostly published in Chinese Students’ Monthly and The China Critic, offer an excellent point of entry into Pan's ideas on population and eugenics, his polemics on family and marriage, and his intellectual positioning and self-fashioning.
This collection is of great reference value, allowing readers to gain an overall and in-depth understanding of the development of Pan's academic thought, and to explore the spiritual world of the scholars brought together by The China Critic who were dedicated to rebuilding the Chinese culture and bridging the West and the East.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-biological Implications of Confucianism
Authors: Guangdan Pan
Series Title: China Academic Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44575-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44574-7Published: 03 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52558-6Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44575-4Published: 21 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2195-1853
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1861
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations