Chinese professor: There were no ancient western civilizations, just modern fakes made to demean China

submitted by Nemacolin from taiwanenglishnews.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

In this book, author Zhu Youzhi asserts that “Primitive Europe was brought into the “civilization of the world” by China, from which it obtained writing, navigation, technology, economy, bureaucracy, democracy, philosophy, and history.

Democracy from China? Haha. And he wants to claim bureaucracy.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In the UK we literally call bureaucrates mandarins.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's fucking retarded. The Chinks were xenophobic and didn't travel. It was white people who went all the way to china. It was white people who built the silk road. Imagine having the audacity to claim that it was the travelers who learned to travel from the places they traveled to!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Chinks were xenophobic and didn't travel.

Chinese original coastal territories were unfit for living. Rome and Greece, on the contrary, formed in the Mediterranean region. Chinese were trying to create a direct route to Rome by conquering lands. Greeks and Romans had conquered Egypt with its channel.

Once Muslims had blocked the channel, Europeans learnt to travel around Africa and became super travelers. Once China had managed to get some good coasts, it learnt to built ships. But cultural tendencies have deep roots and change slowly without a crisis.

All people are natural travelers, our bodies are designed for it. Travel until you find a good land, cultivate it to its limits, wait for the climate to change, do a screaming pikachu face and go back to travelling.