>>508578440 (OP)and yet it was China that invented paper, gun powder, compass, movable type printing, cast iron, silk production, porcelain, fishing reel, seismograph, iron ploughshare, blast furnace, trebuchet, wheelbarrow, gas lighting, drums, well drilling, crossbow, color printing, bombs, rotor based vertical flight, tea cultivation, oil refining, vaccines, kites, paper money, alcohol brewing, water wheel, blast furnace, bristle toothbrush, playing cards, co-fusion steel process, rockets, etc, and not Japan.
china had even reached and established peaceful trade relations with Africa using the world's largest and most technologically advanced ships at the time. Technology from China were also part of an east to west tech transmission that would enable a renaissance in the west. China, however, became too comfortable with their succcess and isolated itself during the Ming dynasty. European demand for Chinese products was high but Chinese demand for European products was very low until the 1700s.
>According to Ferdinand Brunetiรจre (1849-1906), followers of Physiocracy such as Franรงois Quesnay, whose theory of free trade was based on Chinese classical theory, were sinophiles bent on introducing "l'esprit chinois" to France. He also admits that French education was really based on Chinese literary examinations.>In 1853, Lord Stanley of England called the examinations the "Chinese Principle."