China and Historical Capitalism (The Genealogy of Sinological Knowledge)

Author: Bu Zhengmin
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book itself has a long and complex history. From the perspective of European capitalist development, it addresses the original concept of interpreting China from both Europe and China, which is inherited from Joseph Needham. Needham, through his research achievements in the history of Chinese science and technology, affirmed China's contributions to the world's scientific knowledge and scientific culture. In his view, with the full development of capitalism, Europe has already undergone social, economic, and intellectual transformations, while China has not experienced these transformations. The main reason is due to the various factors arising from the organization of material life, a problem that scholars have only recently begun to distinguish. The book attempts to describe the trajectory of knowledge: starting with the uniqueness of Europe and ending with the particularity of China. When embarking on the winding journey of this book, we did not know how long it would take to complete the journey or the friendships that would be formed along the way.