Comments on: ‘Created in China’: Part I http://www.theworld.org/2009/09/created-in-china-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=created-in-china-part-1 Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Emperor PUYI http://www.theworld.org/2009/09/created-in-china-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3317 Emperor PUYI Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:32:28 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=13995#comment-3317 free china: only way for china to be free is to have free elections. 1. paper, pencil with names for a free-vote Let all have free-vote. Vote with pencil and paper. No need to be genius to do this. free china: only way for china to be free is to have free elections.

1. paper, pencil with names for a free-vote

Let all have free-vote.
Vote with pencil and paper.

No need to be genius to do this.

]]> By: Ganesh Trichur http://www.theworld.org/2009/09/created-in-china-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-2549 Ganesh Trichur Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:43:35 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=13995#comment-2549 I also wondered the same. Anyone who has read carefully the work of world historian William H. McNeill (The Pursuit of Power)would realize that it was the combination of European superiority in armaments on the one hand and the Asia-oriented path of European trade and commerce on the other, that laid the foundations of European fortunes. These commercial and trading fortunes not only financed the periodic arms races on the European continent, they also created the circumstances underlying the 1839-42 (and later) Opium Wars. In short the synergy between militarism and capitalism in Western Europe (and a balance of military power on the Continent)led to the forcible incorporation of (East Asia and) China's much vaster wealth and productivity into the networks of the European interstate system. A most useful synthesis in this regard is the work of Giovanni Arrighi (2007) "Adam Smith in Beijing", sooner or later destined to become the landmark intervention of our times - at least insofar as Arrighi refutes decisively all those mythologies Euro-centric scholars invent to justify the subordination and exploitation of the East through what McNeill calls the West's "globe-girdling imperialism". I also wondered the same. Anyone who has read carefully the work of world historian William H. McNeill (The Pursuit of Power)would realize that it was the combination of European superiority in armaments on the one hand and the Asia-oriented path of European trade and commerce on the other, that laid the foundations of European fortunes. These commercial and trading fortunes not only financed the periodic arms races on the European continent, they also created the circumstances underlying the 1839-42 (and later) Opium Wars. In short the synergy between militarism and capitalism in Western Europe (and a balance of military power on the Continent)led to the forcible incorporation of (East Asia and) China’s much vaster wealth and productivity into the networks of the European interstate system. A most useful synthesis in this regard is the work of Giovanni Arrighi (2007) “Adam Smith in Beijing”, sooner or later destined to become the landmark intervention of our times – at least insofar as Arrighi refutes decisively all those mythologies Euro-centric scholars invent to justify the subordination and exploitation of the East through what McNeill calls the West’s “globe-girdling imperialism”.

]]> By: Gary Tartakov http://www.theworld.org/2009/09/created-in-china-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-2353 Gary Tartakov Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:54:45 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=13995#comment-2353 I'm wondering why the discussion of what happened in China and Europe left out what happened between them. In particular I am wondering about how we account for the impact of Portuguese and Dutch piracy in terms of ocean going trade and the four Opium wars fought by the British to have the right to sell opium to the Chinese. I’m wondering why the discussion of what happened in China and Europe left out what happened between them. In particular I am wondering about how we account for the impact of Portuguese and Dutch piracy in terms of ocean going trade and the four Opium wars fought by the British to have the right to sell opium to the Chinese.

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