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Encyclopæpedia Britannica gives his birth date as January 8, 1854. Where did the December 10, 1853 date come from? -- Rbraunwa 23:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
The section "view on race" added by User:Guodata doesn't written from a neutral point of view to judge a person's thought. It first describe Yan Fu as a eugenicist, which isn't mentioned above. Actually, Yan never support or say something like "exclude the inferior".Rather than comparing one race with another to indicate "selected" superiority over others, his introduction of "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" mostly focus on the side of "survive" , so his conclusion can simply summerized as "to struggle to be the fittest for survival under the cruel natural selection", emphasizing more on the "acquired" than "gifted". This catered for the increasing appeal from many contemporary intellectuals for social reform and modernization during the fall of Qing Empire.
However, Guodata's quote misinterpreted his thought and gave itself an undue weight to convey the message that Yan is a yellow racist. It was placed after the main section of this biography. From cited source, I can't find the original text in Chinese, and this quote, cited by the thesis from a book, is thirdhand. I roughly browsed Yan's work only to find nothing have the similar meaning of this quote. So it's questionable whether the book's writer misunderstanded Yan's idea and use this misunderstanding to support the book's idea, as Yan's work is written in classic Chinese,a language system that is not easy to learn or accurately understand.
According to WP:NEUTRAL, I reverted Guodata's edit. It's better to see his whole authentic work than an inadequate quote.-- 太西浜 ( talk) 07:36, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
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Encyclopæpedia Britannica gives his birth date as January 8, 1854. Where did the December 10, 1853 date come from? -- Rbraunwa 23:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
The section "view on race" added by User:Guodata doesn't written from a neutral point of view to judge a person's thought. It first describe Yan Fu as a eugenicist, which isn't mentioned above. Actually, Yan never support or say something like "exclude the inferior".Rather than comparing one race with another to indicate "selected" superiority over others, his introduction of "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" mostly focus on the side of "survive" , so his conclusion can simply summerized as "to struggle to be the fittest for survival under the cruel natural selection", emphasizing more on the "acquired" than "gifted". This catered for the increasing appeal from many contemporary intellectuals for social reform and modernization during the fall of Qing Empire.
However, Guodata's quote misinterpreted his thought and gave itself an undue weight to convey the message that Yan is a yellow racist. It was placed after the main section of this biography. From cited source, I can't find the original text in Chinese, and this quote, cited by the thesis from a book, is thirdhand. I roughly browsed Yan's work only to find nothing have the similar meaning of this quote. So it's questionable whether the book's writer misunderstanded Yan's idea and use this misunderstanding to support the book's idea, as Yan's work is written in classic Chinese,a language system that is not easy to learn or accurately understand.
According to WP:NEUTRAL, I reverted Guodata's edit. It's better to see his whole authentic work than an inadequate quote.-- 太西浜 ( talk) 07:36, 1 June 2021 (UTC)