china was a very backward counntry in history for 2000 years

8.) chinese Ming Empire
Perhaps tens of millions of (chinese) people died, ..... In the first half of the 1600s, famines became common in northern China ....
www.chinahighlights.com › ... › Chinese Culture › China History

9) Toady, China is only able to feed 80% of its population. china has to important food to feed its people.
Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet ...
www.worldwatch.org/.../who-will-feed-china-wake-call-small-planet
Many chinese fishermen are getting killed in South east asia, since they steal fish there.

10)chinese personl income is world no 100.

 

chinese like to fool themselves.

C) china was far behind Europe in history.


1) china invented writing about 3500 years ago,
so the so-called 5000 years chinese civilization is a completely joke.

The oldest chinese oracle bones is about 3500 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone

Middle east invented writing 5000 years ago.

2.) china entered Iron age 600 years later than Europe and Near East,

At the time, European used iron tools, chinese used primitive tools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age


3) when European and middle east people built stone houses, chinese king lived in a mud palace.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built 4500 years ago.
Erlitou, The capital of china(2100 BC – 1600 BC) was built by mud.


4) in 1960's, chinese defence minister Peng Dehui said that, many chinese had no pants to wear.


5) in chinese ming empire - general Lu Xiangsheng said that, many chinese soldiers had no pants to wear.

6) Marco Polo may did not go to china at all.
Marco Polo - Cracked.com
www.cracked.com/article_18427_6-famous-explorers-who-shaped-worl...

Marco Polo, Liar? - Los Angeles Times
articles.latimes.com/1991-10-10/food/fo-13_1_marco-polo-liar

 

Let me guess, you don't like China. Right? And you're from Hong Kong...

 

The only thing that hamstrung China was a gigantic, omnipresent bureacratic government like we are building in the US. OP is mostly histrionics otherwise.

 

the so-called 5000 years chinese civilization is a completely joke.
in fact it is only about 2500 years.

1) the fist 5 kings ruled china for 500 years since 4700 years ago.
each of them ruled china for 100 years .
this is chinese "history"

2) Most European historians do NOT believe chinese XIA empire (about 4000 years ago) even existed .
because china even did not invent the word XIA at that time.
XIA mean SUMMER in chinese,
ancient chinese only knew Spring and Fall.
they divided a year into only two seasons (2000 years ago)..