It's a common Chinese POV to see the past 200 years as a brief "dark age". Whether you're a "nationalist" depends on how srsly you take ithttps://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/811310042280509440 …
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It's not just a Chinese POV. I took an undergrad course on European theorists of "world-systems" theory.
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A common theme was trying to decide if the "world system" of politics/economics/etc had a "natural center" and deciding it was China
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(I think there's a stronger case to be made for Mesopotamia but really it's kind of a dumb question)
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(The point of the course is that trying to talk about the "History of the World" as a single thing is v hard and now discouraged)
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