I encourage you to think of China's Syncretic Folk Religions as a manifestation of Print-based Modernity which hit 300 years before Europe
But it’s a widely debated topic and I keep being convinced one way or the other by new arguments.
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I feel like it is largely a semantic question. Some aspects of Modernity have been with us every time we get a book culture going
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Agreed - book culture promotes institutions for populace, which is crucial to Modernity.
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China never got City State capitalism, but it also actively fought against this happening
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Right. It was remarkably ‘Modern’ in terms of economy of trade and money, very early on.
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Late Rome, and Alexandria, in particular was also shockingly modern in some respects
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Good plumbing true!
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