What has always been the center of chinese civilization?
China's people are at the center of the nation's civilization. All of China's achievements flow from the creativity, intellect, industriousness, and perseverance of its people. China's 5,000 years of civilization is the collective expression of China's people.
Is it correct to say that China is the most successful civilization considering it had been the largest economy, technology innovator, and cultural center for majority of the past 2,000 years of history?
You have got to be kidding. The West was and still is way ahead of anyone else. Even the Chinese themselves can only name 4 (not so) great inventions from ancient China and one of them is paper which they couldn’t really lay claim on.Now, compare that to Europe, the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the resulting tens of thousands of inventions, every one of which is an order of magnitude greater than the 4 named above, the steam engine, the cars and radio and orbiting the space and a man on the Moon.Even today, China is known more for her copying than innovation.Finally, I want to say that what Europe did was unique in history. China is a “normal” civilization with its “normal” glories. The West did something singular.
How did China's location contribute to Chinese ethnocentrism?
Location has little to do with it although China even today places itself in the center of world maps printed domestically. In ancient China, as its name today (Zhonguo) indicates, China believed it was the Middle Kingdom, or more literally the center of the universe. In more recent times, China has considered people of other nations to be "barbarians" (Hua Yi 華 夷). Today this concept still exists in ultra nationalistic policies in which China asserts that its needs are more important than those of other nations and this now manifests itself in its aggressive economic, political and military policies. China's constant boasting of its 5,000 year culture is an attempt to trivialize the cultures of its neighbors. Of course the term " ethnocentric" was defined by westerners since it is an English word. Europeans may have invented the term, but China invented the practice.
What is some info on the invention of paper? i need all the info i can get!!!!! please answer ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!
i need to know the HISTORY of paper like who invented it how it was first made stuff like that!!! not how it is made to day that is worthless to me. HISTORY OF PAPER HISTORY OF PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Why did the Chinese call their land Zhongguo?
Zhong Guo literally means "Middle Kingdom". Whenever people draw a map, they draw their own country in the middle of the paper and then work outwards. More than this, for centuries Chinese had the most sophisticated civilization in Asia, something like the Roman Empire was for Europe. Tribes on the periphery of Chinese territory were considered uncultured barbarian outsiders, the way the Visigoths, etc. were for Rome. When trading with the barbarians, the Chinese always described the products they imported as "tribute (from the barbarians)" and the exports as "gifts from the emperor". And the Chinese really saw their emperor as ruler of the whole known world, which China was at the center of. This worldview worked reasonably well for China until it clashed with the West, whose empires and emperors were just as powerful as China's and who insisted on being treated as equals, not as subject barbarians. And it worked less and less well as European industrialization gave Western countries the ability to easily win any military contest with the Chinese Empire. Japan realized this rather late in the game and realized quickly that it would have to industrialize quickly or else it would end up a colony of the West.
Chinese culture?
i was at a cemetary in liverpool where a section is full of chinese peoples graves lots of the head stones had oranges on them and some had oranges and a pair of slippers i have always wondered what is this symbolic of ...please help