 Analysis of the various European receptions of Darwin’s work currently forms a scholarly industry in its own right (Bowler 2013a; Gayon 2013; Glick 1974 [1988], 2013; Glick &amp; Shaffer 2014; Engels &amp; Glick 2008; Gliboff 2008; Numbers 1998; Pancaldi, 1983 [1991]; Todes 1989; Kelly 1981; Hull 1973). Studies of non-Western receptions is a newer area in Darwin studies. These display similar patterns, but also important differences, from the reception in European contexts (Jin 2019a,b; Yang 2013; Shen 2016; Elshakry 2013; Glick 1988 “Preface”; Pusey 1983). These studies continue to display a common pattern in which the general reception of Darwin’s theories was conditioned, if not determined, by the pre-existing intellectual, scientific, social, and political contexts into which Darwin’s theories were inserted.