r****m 发帖数: 1264 | 1 Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented
compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it"
and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded
China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential
planet.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), U.S. civil rights leader,
author. The Seventh Son, vol. 2, "China" (1971; first
published Feb. 1912). |
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