But you well answered my question regarding the essential dichotomy between Eastern and Western philosophies, and as I parse it simply, the East is based in now, the moment we experience, while the West (at least today, if not in ancient Greece) sees an evolutionary progression, of which now is merely a phase. Thus that progression leads to paradise in the West, but in the East a state of transcendance, or Zen, is attainable in the present moment if one gains suitable perspective of the world and it's vain distractions.
I appreciate the fact that he gives great replies to my shabby posts, but at the same time leaves me with a difficult task.😨
I really like the act of comparing the history and culture of East Asia and Europe!
However, I do not have the capacity to compare East Asian and European philosophies.😔
So far, I have compared the history of East Asia and Europe through my own personal research!
So, I couldn't post the source of my post.
It was a very difficult request for an American elementary school student(= me).😄
I currently don't have the ability to write articles that my two American seniors are asking for.😄
However, I will reveal that I got the most primitive ideas from Japanese studies and documentaries.
The Silk Road (NHK特集 シルクロード) is a historical documentary series jointly produced by Japan and China in the 1980s, and it caused a great sensation in East Asia.
The Silk Road (NHK特集 シルクロード)
exposes the ambitions and desires of the Chinese and Japanese Overlords.
In particular, this documentary reveals the aspirations of the Chinese and Japanese to become Europeans! 😄
It is exposed that the overlords of East Asia, loved by my esteemed seniors
Perhaps my seniors,
However, the Japanese want modern Japan to have expansive overseas colonies like the European empires of the past.😅
https://www.nhk.or.jp/digitalmuseum/nhk50years_en/history/p20/index.html
In September 1972, an NHK director covered Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei's visit to Beijing, China. During the visit, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai invited journalists and reporters for their support in introducing China to the rest of the world, which signalled the thaw of post-war Sino-Japanese relation. The director proposed Silk Road could be the subject of a TV program to illustrate cultural exchange between China and the rest of the world. The executives of NHK supported this idea, but by mid-1970s the camera crew for another program had not been able to enter the Silk Road region. A breakthrough came after various negotiations by the end of October 1978, with Deputy-Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Japan. On New Year's Eve 1978, permission was granted and a joint project with China Central Television (CCTV) was born.[1]
It was the first time a foreign television crew was granted entry into the Silk Road region within Chinese territory, who captured the country at the beginning of the economic reform. The historic documentary also reflected international tension in the Central and Western Asia regions at the time, as it was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet–Afghan War and during the Iran–Iraq War.
Since the program was first broadcast in the 1980s, several archaeological sites visited in the program have since been destroyed by natural disasters or by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silk_Road_(Japanese_TV_series)
Perhaps
It is true that the ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. is different from the one between the U.S. and Japan in the 1980s, but the two trade wars do have a lot in common. First, both involve the world's largest and second-largest economies; second, China is the country with the largest trade surplus with the U.S., the spot was held by Japan during the 1980s; third, China is highly dependent on the U.S. market, so was Japan. The U.S. approach and the intensity of the trade wars are also more or less the same.
Therefore, it may be helpful for China to look at how Japan reacted to the U.S. during their trade war in the 1980s.
In the 1980s, Japan was engaged in a trade war with the United States, just like today's China.😄
My two American seniors know the 1980s better than I do!
At the time, the Japanese believed they could win the trade war with the United States !
So, when Japan produced The Silk Road (NHK特集 silk road), Japan expressed his ambition to become a new hegemon in East Asia!😆
▲ Main routes of the Silk Road
The Silk Road was and is a network of trade routes connecting the East and West; from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century CE it was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions.[1][2][3] “The Silk Road” usually refers to certain land routes, but it may also refer to sea routes that connect East Asia and Southeast Asia with South Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe.
The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk that was carried out along its length beginning during the Han dynasty in China (207 BCE–220 CE). Around 114 BCE, the Han dynasty expanded the Central Asian sections of the Silk Road trade routes. The expansion was parlor led by the missions and explorations of China’s imperial envoy, Zhang Qian, and partly accomplished through a series of military conquests.[4] The Chinese took great interest in ensuring the security of the products they traded; they extended the Great Wall of China to protect the trade route.[5]
The Silk Road trade played a significant role in the development of the civilizations of China, Korea,[6] Japan,[2] the Indian subcontinent, Iran, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between those civilizations.[7] Though silk was the major item exported from China for trade, many other goods and ideas were exchanged, including religions (especially Buddhism), syncretic philosophies, scientific discoveries, and technologies like paper and gunpowder. Thus, the Silk Road was a route not only for cultural as well as economic trade among the civilizations that used it.[8] Diseases, most notably plague, also spread along the Silk Road.[9]
In the present day, trade takes place on the Silk Road on land and on its maritime branch. There are several projects under the name of “New Silk Road” to expand the transport infrastructure in the area of the historic trade routes. The best known is probably the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In June 2014, UNESCO designated the Chang'an-Tianshan corridor of the Silk Road as a World Heritage Site. The Indian portion is on the tentative site list.
The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk, first developed in China[10][11] and a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive transcontinental network.[12][13] It derives from the German term Seidenstraße (literally "Silk Road") and was first popularized by in 1877 by Ferdinand von Richthofen, who made seven expeditions to China from 1868 to 1872.[14][13][15][16] However, the term itself has been in use in decades prior.[17] The alternative translation "Silk Route" is also used occasionally.[18] Although the term was coined in the 19th century, it did not gain widespread acceptance in academia or popularity among the public until the 20th century.[16] The first book entitled The Silk Road was by Swedish geographer Sven Hedin in 1938.[16]
Use of the term 'Silk Road' is not without its detractors. For instance, Warwick Ball contends that the maritime spice trade with India and Arabia was far more consequential for the economy of the Roman Empire than the silk trade with China, which at sea was conducted mostly through India and on land was handled by numerous intermediaries such as the Sogdians.[19] Going as far as to call the whole thing a "myth" of modern academia, Ball argues that there was no coherent overland trade system and no free movement of goods from East Asia to the West until the period of the Mongol Empire.[20] He notes that traditional authors discussing East-West trade such as Marco Polo and Edward Gibbon never labelled any route a "silk" one in particular.[16]
The southern stretches of the Silk Road, from Khotan (Xinjiang) to Eastern China, were first used for jade and not silk, as long as 5000 BCE, and is still in use for this purpose. The term "Jade Road" would have been more appropriate than "Silk Road" had it not been for the far larger and geographically wider nature of the silk trade; the term is in current use in China.[21]
The term Silk Road was first coined by German .
The claim that the Silk Road linking East Asia and Europe was born 2000 years ago and led the birth and development of the civilizations of Eurasia was created by Europeans.
Ferdinand von Richthofen's doctrine was very attractive to Chinese and Japanese Overlords.
They felt they could discover a vision of independence from the hegemony of the United States, which now dominates global maritime trade.
They was convinced that if the Silk Road connecting East Asia and Europe was revived, China and Japan could become independent from the US maritime trade control power!😳
So, Japan and China made a Silk Road documentary together!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted_Waters
Uncharted Waters (originally released as Daikoukai Jidai (大航海時代, Daikōkai Jidai), "Great Age of Sailing") is a Japanese video game series produced by Koei under its "Rekoeition" brand.
It is a simulation and role-playing video game series dealing with sailing and trading, themed around the Age of Discovery. In the games, the player takes up the role of a captain (or commodore in some translations) and manages a seagoing fleet to participate in trades, privateering, treasure hunting, exploration, and plain piracy. Even though the series is largely open-ended, there is still a loose plot which requires the player to follow certain paths, and deviating from these paths may stall the progress of the story.
In East Asia, the series has a large cult following, but it has not received much recognition outside the region. However, it has been compared to the earlier Sid Meier's Pirates! in gameplay and theme.
Also set in the 16th century, this game is a sequel to the first title and was released for NEC PC-98, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive and PC in 1994. It also saw releases in 1996 on Sega Saturn and PlayStation in Japan exclusively. The SNES version was released on Nintendo's Virtual Console in Japan on March 17, 2009 and in North America on April 6, 2009 for the Wii.[1] It was later released for the Wii U in Japan on October 30, 2013, in North America on November 14, 2013 and for the first time in Europe on November 28, 2013.
Uncharted Waters (originally released as Daikoukai Jidai (大航海時代, Daikōkai Jidai)) reveals Japan's desire to conquer overseas colonies, like European empires.
The belief that Japan can achieve independence from American domination is revealed if it can achieve the same status as previous European empires!
The present-day China also appears to imitate Japan's aspirations.😆
Currently, the Chinese and Japanese Overlords are imitating the European Overlords my American seniors love! 😁
