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A 9 page paper discussing the greatly different routes that industrialization has taken in China and in the United States, to the point that only now is it reaching into the more remote regions of China. There are a litany of cultural and philosophical reasons for this difference between these two nations. The purpose here is to examine some of those reasons, which include facts of history and several cultural issues such as identity of place, perspective of time, availability of labor and the role of tradition in the two cultures as it existed a century ago. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Industrialization has taken greatly different routes in China than in the United States, to the point that only now is it reaching into the more remote regions of China.
There are a litany of cultural and philosophical reasons for this difference between these two nations. The purpose here is to examine some of those reasons. China
The West discovered China in the 17th century, when Britain maintained the worlds greatest naval power. China was aloof to the interest of
the West. For centuries, the Chinese had considered themselves the center of the world order, superior to all other cultures and with nothing to learn from them. The
emissaries from the West were barbarians in the view of the Chinese; Westerners were tolerated but certainly were not welcome. The West rapidly
became enamored of the items they could find in the Orient. It was this early uneasy trade relationship that provided the basis for British obsession with tea; silk and
spices also were in great demand in all the British colonies that spanned much of the world. For its part, the West had nothing for which China wanted to
trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. After defeat
in the Opium War with Britain, Feng Kuei-Fen asked, "Why are the Western nations small and yet strong? Why are we large and yet weak? We must search for the
means to become their equal, and that depends solely upon human effort" (OBrien). Feng Kuei-Fen specifically addresses four areas in which the Chinese were inferior: wasting human talents;
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