“Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why the non-West should adopt Western culture. If advanced technology is particular to Western culture, then it is only by Westernizing that the non-West can obtain it. This argument collapses if Western technology can be adopted in isolation from the broader culture, or if other cultures can generate significant technology independently.” HistoryTechnologyEuropeAsiaEurocentrismHistoriography Book:The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb Source: The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
“China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage of the early exposure to that head start transformed precocity into a false dawn. Perversely, Asian improvements and adaptations of current (twentieth- to twenty-first-century) Western-developed technology are taken as further signs of lack of creativity.” HistoryTechnologyEuropeChinaAsiaEurocentrismHistoriography Book:The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb Source: The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb