Chinese Roman interaction.

[Eleatic Guest]

If we would speak honestly Chinese civilization was and still is more strong than European and Russian civilization (not only because of overpopulation). Their outlook of the world is quite differs from our.

I am now together with a Chinese girl for two years, and I can say honestly that this is not so. Both of your assumptions.

Now for three years, and still fail to agree with you.

Han China was btw an invention of the 19th-early 20th century as so many other national identities (which usually, of course, have deeper historical roots). People in what is today called China rather viewed themselves as Tang people, Ming people, Qing people, etc. Most of Chinese self-conception evolve around the dynasties, the concept of centrality and moral criteria, not so much around ethnicity.

If I were nasty, I would say that today, save for a few strongholds such as the characters and food, 'Chinese' culture is practically dead. It all has become westernized or strives to do so. The link to the past in China is more severed as elsewhere, because the introduction of modernity has been so much delayed that now it can only come as one huge torrent.

Japan was more clever there, although their cities and archtitecture today do not look even remotely as even 60 years ago.