The Rise and Fall of Technology in Chinese History

Joseph Needham famously asked why China did not have its own Industrial Revolution. Using a newly constructed database, guest speaker Yasheng Huang will show that China’s technological collapse happened much earlier than previously thought and the collapse coincided closely with the rise of autocracy and ideological homogeneity.

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If most inventors were part of the bureaucracy, but if the bureaucracy did not scale with population growth, that would explain the decline in CDI.

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Sorry: Homo Habilis to Saipan.

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It’s really the Tail of the parabola where all the abstract thinking is! Some say it’s about testosterone amount!
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