Socio-biological Implications in Confucianism / Guangdan Pan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pan, Guangdan, 1898-1967, author.

Series:

China academic library

China Academic Library, 2195-1853

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociobiology--China.

Sociobiology.

Philosophy, Confucian.

China.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Springer, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Eugenics and China: A Preliminary Survey of the Background

Evaluation of Chinese Student Fraternities in America

Sociobiological Implications of Confucianism

An Anthropological View on China's Troubles

Why Christianity Fails in China

China and Birth Control

The Problem of the Cultural Hybrid

Browbeating Prostitutions

Familism and the Optimum Family

The Meaning of a National Examination System

Glimpses into the Universities

Notes on Modern Marriage

Chinese Colonization in Manchuria

The Third Session of the Institute of Pacific Relations

Selection and Athletic Prowess

Bon Voyage to Chekiang Refugees

Patrilineage and the Surname in the New Civil Code

Consanguineous Marriage and the Law

Genealogy in China: A Neglected Phase of Historical Study

The Late Mr. Yuan Hsi-tao

Whither China's Womanhood?

Japan's Rape on Civilization

Since Darwin's Death

Japan's Southward Policy

Bankruptcy of Higher Education

From Lausanne to Lousan

Some Vital Statistics from Kuala Lumpur

Manchuria as China's "Life Line"

Havelock Ellis as a Humanist

Construction for Rehabilitation

Ma Chun-wu

Educational Facilities at Home

Birth Control and Oversea Chinese

Eugenics and Birth Regulation

The Chinese as Believers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3662445743

9783662445747

OCLC:

886485701

Publisher Number:

99962696589