Paper Content of Eugenics in China

The acceptance of eugenics in China?
1. The importance of studying eugenics in China: one aspect of the birth control (family planning) plicy, namely the slogan of controlling the population size has already internalized Chinese people to accept and popular support it. [Although there are also many critics], however, the other part, to improve the population quality, not many people pay attention to it [outside China, many China watchers and critics thought it was eugenics similar to the Nazi's scientific racism that emphasizes the racial supremacy of certain groups (e.g. by race and ethnicity) and depresses others. So is it really something just like the western critics claimed?

2. What eugenics is? Review of eugenics in western world, especially in US. Is it always a negative term?

3. The history of eugenics in China is significant since late Qing dynasty till The current PRC. Why is it important in Chinese modern history? (See Frank, 1998). How Chinese governments and Eugenicists advocated and promoted it? And how it caused to popular support from the Chinese gerenal public?

4. In the present day, different attitudes to the eugenics in the birth control policy, especially the the "Mother and infant law" came to effect in 1995.

5. The current debate: Overseas Uyghurs and Tibetans claimed the Chinese government adopted this policy to exterminate their races/ethnic groups. But Chinese eugenicists claimed that the national policy was not a eugenic one, because it was not based on racism, and women who were pregnant were only persuaded/suggested but not forced to terminate pregnancy [non-coercive implementation]. However, Frank (1998) thought the CCP authoritarian political system practised the so-called healthy birth policy more to be something eugenic [selective breeding]......

6. Popular support for the eugenics: in the slogan, to improve the population quality, the "quality" as regarded as "educational, cultural and manner good performances" rather than what it really means, the new generations with no congenital diseases. So popular support comes from mis-understanding of the policy? why?

7. Eugenics, some people divided as positive and negative eugenics. How can it becomes positive, who define it....