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[[File:Fearther03.jpg|thumb|right|220px|A [[Chinese opera]] (''[[Beijing opera]]'') performance in [[Beijing]].]] | [[File:Fearther03.jpg|thumb|right|220px|A [[Chinese opera]] (''[[Beijing opera]]'') performance in [[Beijing]].]] | ||
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The '''Culture of China''' is one of the world's oldest and most complex cultures comparable to that of Europe and acting the principle counterpoise to it in world historical development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/chinese-dynasty-guide.cfm|title=Chinese Dynasty Guide - The Art of Asia - History & Maps|publisher=[[Minneapolis Institute of Art]]|archivedate=10 October 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/china/index.html|title=Guggenheim Museum - China: 5,000 years|publisher=[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation]] & [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]]|date=6 February 1998 to 1998-06-03|archivedate=10 October 2008}}</ref> The area in which the culture is dominant covers a large geographical region in eastern Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between towns, cities and [[:en:Province (China)|provinces]]. | The '''Culture of China''' is one of the world's oldest and most complex cultures comparable to that of Europe and acting as the principle counterpoise to it in world historical development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/chinese-dynasty-guide.cfm|title=Chinese Dynasty Guide - The Art of Asia - History & Maps|publisher=[[Minneapolis Institute of Art]]|archivedate=10 October 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/china/index.html|title=Guggenheim Museum - China: 5,000 years|publisher=[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation]] & [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]]|date=6 February 1998 to 1998-06-03|archivedate=10 October 2008}}</ref> The area in which the culture is dominant covers a large geographical region in eastern Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between towns, cities and [[:en:Province (China)|provinces]]. | ||
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Chinese culture was generally equal or superior to that of the West for the 1500 hundred years prior to the [[:en:Great Divergence|Great Divergence]]. Beginning in Ming times however, but presaged by policies as early as Tang times, despite being able to field large fleets and having a significant technological lead, the West would eclipse and ultimately cause the collapse of this civilization whose very success at establishing a productive unified nation state system 200 years before the founding of the Roman Empire ultimately resulted in its rigidity, morbidity, and collapse in the early 20th century of the Western era. Ironically, although literate Chinese have been atheistic since classical times, and Chinese culture is noted for its worldliness, modern science developed and flowered as a resurgence of classical European rational traditions in Christian Europe. | Chinese culture was generally equal or superior to that of the West for the 1500 hundred years prior to the [[:en:Great Divergence|Great Divergence]]. Beginning in Ming times however, but presaged by policies as early as Tang times, despite being able to field large fleets and having a significant technological lead, the West would eclipse and ultimately cause the collapse of this civilization whose very success at establishing a productive unified nation state system 200 years before the founding of the Roman Empire ultimately resulted in its rigidity, morbidity, and collapse in the early 20th century of the Western era. Ironically, although literate Chinese have been atheistic since classical times, and Chinese culture is noted for its worldliness, modern science developed and flowered as a resurgence of classical European rational traditions in Christian Europe. | ||
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By [[:en:2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|2008 of the Christian epoch]], China had reversed its slide relative to the West. By the end of the first quarter of the 48th century of the traditional Chinese calendar, China had become the largest economy once more. By mid-century as a result of the successful execution of the synthesis of the two systems, | By [[:en:2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|2008 of the Christian epoch]], China had reversed its slide relative to the West. By the end of the first quarter of the 48th century of the traditional Chinese calendar, China had become the largest economy once more. By mid-century as a result of the successful execution of the synthesis of the two systems, spearheaded by the [[:en:Hong Kong#Economy|Hong Kong S.A.R]]., China achieved global preeminence for the first time through its policies of [[:en:Harmonious society|Harmonious Society]], [[:en:Scientific Development Concept|Scientific Development]], and [[:en:Xiaokang|Xiaokang (小康) ]]. While not accomplishing the feat alone, together with India, the American Union and others, China's leading role in the Great Convergence put a distinctive Chinese stamp on the character of the period of globally unified human society. | ||
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