The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
21. Celestial Empire: Stasis and Retreat Now England is paying homage. My Ancestors' merit and virtue must have reached their di ...
(^336) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS These mandarin officials embodied the higher Chinese culture—its prestige, its wholenes ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE: STASIS AND RETREAT^337 fore someone else did. Not easy. This magical device had to be ac companied. Chinese i ...
LATE MING AND EARLY Q'ING CHINA, SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. The "willow palisade" surrounded the area of Chinese settl ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE: STASIS AND RETREAT 339 provement, there is little about them that is new. The principles of mathematics all de ...
340 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS So it was that in 1621, when the Portuguese in Macao offered four cannon to the emperor by ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE I STASIS AND RETREAT^341 Along with indifference to technology went resistance to European science. Christian c ...
(^342) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS proposal that did not incite resistance; no novelty that did not frighten vested intere ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE: STASIS AND RETREAT^343 about.) Illegitimate because where is the failure? The very use of the word imposes non ...
(^344) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS search, which it disparaged as "interventionist" and superficial, con tributed its dis ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE: STASIS AND RETREAT^345 but the difference in manners, descent, and privilege remained. Mark ers (the obligati ...
(^346) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ... unquestionably there can be found in no other country such a depth of disastrous po ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE: STASIS AND RETREAT^347 failure, for two reasons primarily. First, Westerners have often seen it as a mark of w ...
(^348) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS painting a happy picture of Chinese achievements in the context of ecumenical science. ...
CELESTIAL EMPIRE'. STASIS AND RETREAT^349 All of this has not discouraged the propagation of the new gospel, because in matters ...
Japan: And the Last Shall Be First Wealthy we do not at all think [Japan] will ever become: the advantages con ferred by nature ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^351 tuguese Jesuit put it, those who knew Japan "set it before all the coun tries of the Eas ...
JAPAN AND KOREA, C. 1850 — THE END OF TOKUGAWA AND BEGINNING OF MEIJI The Japanese islands constituted a little world of trading ...
JAPAN: AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST^353 worlds embraced, and each thought itself fortunate and the other gen erous. The Japanese ...
(^354) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS nological assistance in a tough political arena. For a time, even the topmost leaders, ...
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