进化论在近代中日两国传播问题初探

On the Dissemination of Evolutionism in Modern China and Japan

达尔文生物进化论之所以能够在近代中日两国的哲学和社会科学领域被广泛传播并产生了巨大影响 ,其原因在于 :两国的历史传统、当时的民族危机感和政治论争、传播者的主观意识以及进化论的双重属性和特征等。汤因比的“文化放射”理论未必完全适于说明进化论的传播问题 。

Darwin's Theory of Evolution was widely disseminated in the fields of philosophy and social sciences in modern China and Japan and it also had enormous influences on these fields.The reasons for these are as follows:the historical traditions of the two countries,the national sense of crisis of the time,political dispute,the subjective consciousness of the disseminator and the double attributes and characteristics of evolutionism and so on. Tonby's Theory of'Culture Radiation'can not fully explain the dissemination of Evolutionism and worthy of detailed study.