Invisible escreveu:
> On 07/06/2011 01:23 PM, nemesis wrote:
> 
>> BTW, some times japanese manga comes up with some interesting 
>> thoughts.  I read
>> in Blade of the Immortal a suggestion that europeans had quite a 
>> better grasp on
>> medicine as opposed to the traditional chinese medicine because they 
>> had quite
>> good knowledge of the human body and its inner workings for all the 
>> centuries
>> worth of painful and barbaric tortures and death penalties.  Europeans 
>> were
>> making surgery while chinese were still drinking bitter tea.
>>
>> I'm sure there was plenty of torture in china too, but while europeans 
>> were
>> cracking open bodies and letting them rot in public places during the 
>> dark ages,
>> china was in the height of a sophisticated civilization.  Death 
>> penalties were
>> usually carried out quickly rather than in agony.
> 
> I heard QI

?

> assert that the invention of china held China back 
> technologically for several centuries. The gist of it being that since 
> they had china cups to drink out of, they didn't develop glass, so they 
> didn't have sophisticated optical lenses, nor high-temperature furnaces 
> for smelting iron, etc. Or something like that. (I can't remember off 
> the top of my head whether it was china, paper or tea, but it was 
> something innocuous like that.)

an interesting conjecture, no doubt.  OTOH, the chinese discovered powder.

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