With the many ideas Chinese intellectuals borrowed from the West and incorporated into their ideas of nationalism, it becomes difficult to determine where the West’s influence starts and ends. Chu and Zarrow write, “China’s new nationalists linked the nation to different kinds of ethnological and sociological doctrines…theories of evolution, ethics, and natural selection raised by Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Thomas Huxley…” In this statement, Chu and Zarrow provide a description of how much Chinese nationalists and their ideas of nationalism were influenced by the West. Peter Bol, too, writes, “political leaders became convinced that to compete with more powerful and richer countries China had to learn the models and techniques that were thought to lead to greater wealth and power. Whether it is called globalization or modernization this has meant looking to the modern
With the many ideas Chinese intellectuals borrowed from the West and incorporated into their ideas of nationalism, it becomes difficult to determine where the West’s influence starts and ends. Chu and Zarrow write, “China’s new nationalists linked the nation to different kinds of ethnological and sociological doctrines…theories of evolution, ethics, and natural selection raised by Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Thomas Huxley…” In this statement, Chu and Zarrow provide a description of how much Chinese nationalists and their ideas of nationalism were influenced by the West. Peter Bol, too, writes, “political leaders became convinced that to compete with more powerful and richer countries China had to learn the models and techniques that were thought to lead to greater wealth and power. Whether it is called globalization or modernization this has meant looking to the modern