Report, if you have a problem with this page“ China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage of the early exposure to that head start transformed precocity into a false dawn. Perversely, Asian improvements and adaptations of current (twentieth- to twenty-first-century) Western-developed technology are taken as further signs of lack of creativity. ”
Peter A. Lorge
From : The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
