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发帖数: 61 | 1 这篇文章的题目显然是针对Amy Chua的“Why Chinese mums are superior?" 文章的大
意是：西欧在几百年前就停止使用了弓箭，而中国得意于是亚洲干燥的气候和精湛制造
工艺，将弓箭一直使用到1800以后。
我的想法是；似乎历史上中国在自己封闭的体系中只能产生incremental innovation,
但很难产生有划时代意义的discontinuous innovation。
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/14/chinese-bows-were
Western European armies gave up bows and arrows hundreds of years ago, but
they remained in use in China into the 1800s—even though the Chinese had
beaten the West to the development of guns. Why?
A physicist at Australia’s University of Queensland offers a partial answer
that they continued to offer advantages over slow-loading guns, despite
guns’ greater power.
The key to the Central Asian bow, writes Timo Nieminen—reader-friendly
summary here—was its composite structure. The side facing the archer was
crafted of horn (which can endure tremendous compression), while the side
facing the target was a glue-and-sinew composite (which can endure the
tension caused by flex). A central portion of wood joined the two sides.
The bows were costly to produce—it might take a year for the glue-sinew
composite to dry, by some reports—and they didn’t travel well: They couldn
’t endure Western European humidity, for example.
The brilliant construction allowed the creation of bows that were
simultaneously more powerful and less unwieldy than Western bows. Chinese
craftsmen (and Mongol weapon-fashioners, too) could vary the length of the
bows depending on whether the goal was distance, accuracy, or armor-piercing
potency. In the arms race against gunmakers, they held their own for an
astonishingly long time. | t*n
发帖数: 14458 | 2 气毛候
这帮人忘了中国多大了
answer
【在 t********0 的大作中提到】
: 这篇文章的题目显然是针对Amy Chua的“Why Chinese mums are superior?" 文章的大
: 意是：西欧在几百年前就停止使用了弓箭，而中国得意于是亚洲干燥的气候和精湛制造
: 工艺，将弓箭一直使用到1800以后。
: 我的想法是；似乎历史上中国在自己封闭的体系中只能产生incremental innovation,
: 但很难产生有划时代意义的discontinuous innovation。
: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/14/chinese-bows-were
: Western European armies gave up bows and arrows hundreds of years ago, but
: they remained in use in China into the 1800s—even though the Chinese had
: beaten the West to the development of guns. Why?
: A physicist at Australia’s University of Queensland offers a partial answer
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