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★Since its publication, it has been reprinted 6 times! Sales have exceeded 30,000 copies!
★Highly recommended by former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of the Institute for China Studies at Fudan University Zhang Weiwei, and founder of the Dedao App Luo Zhenyu, among others!
★This book offers a fresh response to the renowned "Needham Question" and a comprehensive deconstruction of the popular "Eurocentrism" historical view, providing academia with a new perspective.

This is a deafening book. The central question to be answered is: why did the scientific revolution take place in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and not in China? The popular answers to this question have been limited to 'Eurocentrism'. Professor Wen's book, supported by a large amount of hard historical evidence and rigorous argumentation, jumps out of the popular trap of the superiority of Western culture and institutions and adopts the framework of 'state competition' to argue that China did not produce modern science not because it lacked the democracy, freedom and rational thinking of ancient Greece and the Renaissance. Rather, since entering the Great Unification at the end of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, China no longer faced an environment of sustained state competition, so there was a lack of intensive arms race and commercial rivalry among the great powers, and therefore a lack of pressure for deep understanding of the epoch-making questions of ballistic trajectory and combustion and explosion mechanism inevitably raised by thermal weapons warfare. The lack of pressure on intellectuals and the state to confront these questions has prevented the creation and government support of scientific communities for the systematic study of these questions. This book is a wake-up call. It is not only the author's conclusions that have completely refreshed our understanding of the myth of the scientific revolution, but also the convincing evidence and the coherence of the argumentation on the problem.

Wen Yi holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine from West China Medical University, a master's degree in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and was a professor of economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Cornell University from 1996 to 2005. He also served as a senior economist and Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 2005 to 2021. His research interests are in macroeconomics, including the theory of business cycles, multiple equilibria and market failure in dynamic optimization, micro-foundations and dynamic general equilibrium theory of monetary policy, the political economy of development, and the economic history of industrialization. He has published more than 50 academic papers in the world's leading economics journals, and his monographs include “The Great Chinese Industrial Revolution—A Critic of the Fundamental Principles of Developmental Political Economy” and “The Making of an Economic Superpower--Unlocking China's Industrialization.”

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Crusades - The Beginning of Modern European Civilization
Section I. The First Crusade (1096-1099)
Section 2. The Other Crusades
Section 3. Summary
Chapter 3. The Dark Face of the Renaissance (1300-1600)
Section 1: 'Demoralization' of the Renaissance
Section 2. Machiavelli and the Poet Dante
Section 3. The Political Power behind the Art Boom - the 'Patrons
Section 4. The Lack of an Art Boom in Portugal and Spain
Section 5. The Pope and the War of the Papal States
Section 6. Religious Reform and Redistribution of Geopolitical Power in Europe
Chapter 4: The Great Voyage (1492) and the 'New Crusades’
Section 1. Marco Polo
Section 2. Prince Henry
Section 3. Portuguese-Spanish Colonial Race
Section 4. Western Desire to Conquer China Has a Long History.
Chapter 5: The Age of Naval Power and the 'War ⇄ Trade' Accelerator
Section 1: The Naval History of Venice
Section 2: The Naval History of Portugal
Section 3: The Naval History of Spain
Section 4. The Naval History of France
Section 5: The Naval History of the Netherlands
Section 6. The Naval History of Great Briton
Section 7. The Economic Basis of War - the Rise of Chartered Companies
Chapter 6. The Code of the Scientific Revolution
Section 1. Cannonballs and the Physics Revolution
Section 2. Gunpowder and the Chemical Revolution
Section 3. Government Funding, Scientific Communities and Arms Race
Section 4. Arms Trade and the 'War ⇄ Commerce' Accelerator
Section 5. The answer to Joseph Needham's Puzzle is Found
Conclusion
References