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Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder, which Jiang treats as technologies that transformed the world but not China under bureaucratic culture.
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four major inventions
Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder, which Jiang treats as technologies that transformed the world but not China under bureaucratic culture.
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"...know that by the time of the Song, China had four major inventions. Okay? These four major inventions, of course, are paper, printmaking, compass,..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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