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I disagree with the high level equilibrium explanation. The Chinese economy was always large and had cheap labor - but didn't stop technological innovation before, due to the threats from external invaders (Europeans and northern nomads during the Ming, and northern nomads during the Song) and new ideas/products brought in by traders. In my guess, what really put an end to technological innovation during the Qing was the final conquest of the remaining northern nomads, the stabilization of the tribute system and the settlement of the border with the Russian Empire. There was no longer any motive, economic, diplomatic or military, for innovation.
I do not think that this phenomena will occur again - today's northern nomads are simply replaced by the rest of the world, and global economic competition has made it such that you can't stop innovating, or you'll fall behind. The Mongols are at the gates (mentally), permanently, and that sort of pressure - the desperate drive to survive - will ensure Chinese moves innovation forward.
Beautiful farms ! Without Industry Revolution China, we never saw such pics in Chinese history.Welcome to Heilongjiang Province Farm in the northeast of China.
Buddy, one swallow does not make a summer make . Confucian is still so useful from whole.Beautiful farms ! Without Industry Revolution China, we never saw such pics in Chinese history.
Industry Revolution make China Agriculture STRONG, not stupid Confucian or ignorant King.
Beautiful farms ! Without Industry Revolution China, we never saw such pics in Chinese history.
Industry Revolution make China Agriculture STRONG, not stupid Confucian or ignorant King.
Buddy, one swallow does not make a summer make . Confucian is still so useful from whole.
拉屎拉到裤子去了,不能怪茅坑,是吧? 呵呵
孔夫子的中庸之道,在西方列强坚船利炮之前,一毛不值!Buddy, one swallow does not make a summer make . Confucian is still so useful from whole.
拉屎拉到裤子去了,不能怪茅坑,是吧? 呵呵
孔夫子的中庸之道,在西方列强坚船利炮之前,一毛不值!
Confucian can not save Modern China, can not against Warships & Guns from the West. Just make urself feel Good in heart, not suitable for this Competitive World.
Confucian is not a panacea ,but is a wisdom philosophy. you ascribe Modern china's failure to confucian, the point of view is certainly not right .孔夫子的中庸之道,在西方列强坚船利炮之前,一毛不值!
Confucian can not save Modern China, can not against Warships & Guns from the West. Just make urself feel Good in heart, not suitable for this Competitive World.
Buddy, go to study YiJing(易经)please. You can choose to read the version with the explaination of professor 曾仕强.孔夫子的中庸之道,在西方列强坚船利炮之前,一毛不值!
Confucian can not save Modern China, can not against Warships & Guns from the West. Just make urself feel Good in heart, not suitable for this Competitive World.
Plus manpower may not explain everything. You aren't going to beat a heavy train in a 100 mile race or a steamboat down the river no matter how many men you have.
You are forgetting Europe natural advantage. There's good reason why the steam engine is found in England where there's an abundant amount of dirt cheap coal (because the early steam engine is very inefficient) and natural barrier that can protect advancement from 'natural disaster' (Mongol) that can wipe out everything.
Naaa, China has an abundance of dirt cheap coal, one of the reason it is still heavily relying on coal even today being the biggest producer of coal in the world. Chinese has been surface mining and using coal since the bronze age, by the Song dynasty, Chinese not only have been mining for coal, but drilling for oil as well. It is the definitely not the energy source or the lack of that's been the stumble block for the development of steam engine.
The biggest problem with Chinese agriculture is the tiny plots allotted to each farmer. The revenue from small plots is miniscule and running such farms is very inefficient. A 2 acre plot really doesnt need large tillers, threshers and mowers - a family armed with spades, straw hats and gumboots can too easily run a tiny plot but stay poor and barely self sufficient.
In the U.S where a small farmer might run a 400 acre plot, heavy machines makes them very efficient. Ive seen videos of orange picking machines run by one dude that can harvest 1,000,000 oranges in a day!
Here in Australia I live on a 5 acre plot but we dont farm anything. I do small time gardening on my days off and sometimes at night after work. I cant imagine making a living farming on my property!