Lin attributes China's fall as an innovative inventor to not experiencing a scientific revolution such as one that took place in Europe. The introduction of science focused institutions and the increasing integration between science and technology in Europe that arose from the scientific revolution allowed for the concentrated training of individuals in the experimental method which removes the constraints of population size on technological invention. ... These characteristics that arose from a scientific revolution are missing in China, thus, China's potential of invention was re...

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But the absence of scientific revolution in China is not the real issue here - after all, no single country invented everything. ... British industrial revolution evolved in the context of the European system, political competition between states, overseas exploration and above all, as many posters correctly pointed out, scientific revolution. Take the case of scientific revolution. Can one imagine a British industrial revolution without European scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. ... But the absence of scientific revolution in China is not the real issue here - ...

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For complete subjection of the population, the leading party must use advanced technological and scientific means. ... In the case of 1984, totalitarianism is established after a revolution occurs. ... The dictators normally do not allow citizens to possess weapons so that, in case of a revolution, the government can quietly and easily put it down. ...

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There are scientific resources (decreased snowcaps in the Northern Hemisphere, sea-level rise, which state climate change is happening and needs to be addressed on a global basis. ... Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere has increased to 383 parts per million (ppm) from about 280 ppm at the start of the industrial revolution, a 37 percent increase (Umair, 2012). ...

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Despite the fact that Mao was a peasant and that he led the peasant revolution his attitude towards peasants became very bitter. ... Chinese scientist were influenced by the theories of the soviet researcher whom Stalin had regarded as the voice of scientific truth, Trofim Lysenkoism. ...

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In 1966 began the Cultural Revolution, organized by Mao against the members of the Party. ... The strong points of China are an important saving and a desire for education, particularly in scientific domains. ...

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The Rise of Capitalism and Western Dominance The West seems to be the most economically stable and powerful part of the modern world. This is largely true nowadays, but it hasn't always been the case. Before the Renaissance, the civilizations of Western Europe were by far the most ignorant, une...

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This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from the outside world a revolution led to the re-establishment of imperial rule and the opening up of the country to overseas trade and technology. ... From his observations in both West and East civilizations, he had found that each had certain strong points and weak points bound up in its moral teachings and scientific theories. ...

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Confucianism in Japan and China The Japanese people had little civilization of their own until, during the fourth century AD, they began to have contact with the Chinese. From them, they borrowed a great deal of their culture, including their ideas of philosophy and their form of government. Although the Japanese government owed much to the ideas of the Chinese, the two cultures would go in very different directions over the next two centuries. The Chinese adherence to Confucianism eventually led them to stagnation and collapse, while the Japanese moved on to a new, more warlike mode of...

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POLITICAL CLIMATE The current political system in China is a one party system, Communist Party of China that won the "new democratic revolution" in 1949 and subsequently founded The People's Republic of China. ...

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