What was the first translation of Evolution in China and who was the author?
Yan Fu (1853 ~ 192 1), an enlightenment thinker and translator in modern China, first brought Darwinian evolution theory to China. Yan Fu studied in England in his early years, when Darwin's theory of evolution was widely spread in the West. Yan Fu was deeply influenced and felt refreshed. Yan Fu translated Evolution in 1898 and introduced Darwin's theory of evolution to the Chinese people. Although some fragmentary views of Darwin were introduced to China along with other western scientific knowledge before Yan Fu, it was Yan Fu and his translation of Evolution that first introduced western scientific knowledge by China people themselves. The theory of evolution mainly talks about the mutual restriction and interdependence between the role of nature and the role of human society in biological evolution, and makes a scientific explanation of the occurrence and evolution of organisms, especially introducing the view that "natural selection, survival of the fittest". To the scientific community in China at that time. The ideological circle had a great influence, which not only spread some advanced biological knowledge, but more importantly, the biological evolution view of "survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest", which became the drum force for the people of China to rise up against oppression for their own survival. However, Yan Fu's theory of evolution is only Huxley's Theory of Evolution and Ethics, and he is a supporter of translating the theory of evolution, not Darwin's On the Origin of Species. It was Ma who really introduced Darwin's Origin of Species to China (1882 ~ 1939). After Yan Fu translated Huckley's theory of evolution, he actively and systematically promoted Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's Origin of Species was translated from 1902 and officially published in 19 19. 1936, he translated and published another book by Darwin, Human supremacy and choice. In addition, Ma personally wrote Darwin, introducing Darwin's theory in easy-to-understand language, which made an important contribution to the wide spread of Darwin's theory in China.