Re:How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech?
by echevil on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:29AM
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In what age did Chinese had no opportunities to read physical books? That was at least half a century back
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Re:How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech?
by spyckie2 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:11AM
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I meant, reading physical books as a recreational activity because you're living on a farm with subsistence wages and lack the income or time to do so. China was a country with 750 million people living on less than $2 a day in 1990.
Not to mention the burning of books and disdaining of intellectual pursuit in the cultural revolution.