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Kind of depressing. If you don't like reading about the 1930's eugenics movement, this is not the book for you.
The one child policy is eugenics with Chinese characteristics.
Interesting things:
Like the West is obsessed with 3 and 7, China seems to be obsessed with 2 and 5. (At least according to this source).
Lots of Chinese scholars in the late 19th, early 20th century were educated in Japan
Understanding of pregnancy was based on rice cultivation rather than animal cultivation, so they thought (apparently correctly?) that you could influence the development of the child all the way through pregnancy.
The anti-eugenics arguments did not get translated along with the eugenics arguments.
Pre-communist China was extremely anti-African. Communist China was patronizing towards Africans (we must help our pitiful and weak African comrades) and modern day China is pretty racist towards Africans.
There's an argument that Chinese people didn't originate in Africa that crops up every time a new human fossil is found in China.
The one child policy is eugenics with Chinese characteristics.
Interesting things:
Like the West is obsessed with 3 and 7, China seems to be obsessed with 2 and 5. (At least according to this source).
Lots of Chinese scholars in the late 19th, early 20th century were educated in Japan
Understanding of pregnancy was based on rice cultivation rather than animal cultivation, so they thought (apparently correctly?) that you could influence the development of the child all the way through pregnancy.
The anti-eugenics arguments did not get translated along with the eugenics arguments.
Pre-communist China was extremely anti-African. Communist China was patronizing towards Africans (we must help our pitiful and weak African comrades) and modern day China is pretty racist towards Africans.
There's an argument that Chinese people didn't originate in Africa that crops up every time a new human fossil is found in China.
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