Asian Quote by Charles C. Mann

A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.

— Mark Kurlansky

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

“Under the Song dynasty, between 960 and 1279, China led the world in many technological innovatons. The Chinese invented clocks, the compass, gunpowder, paper…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by the Industrial…

— Daron Acemoğlu

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.…

— John Moody

ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia…

— Jiang Zemin

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one…

— Gary Locke

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of…

— Hu Shih

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

— John Moody

“Europe needed printing because it was bursting with creativity. New ideas in the arts and sciences, as well as in social justice and religion,…

— Mark Kurlansky

“At the industry level this process went, for example, from cotton, tobacco and wheat through railroads and automobiles, household appliances and electrical goods, to…

— Edward A. Hudson