May 2009
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen, Vincent F. Hendricks
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Notes
1. Some recent writings of interest are: James McGregor, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China (London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005); Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (London: Allen Lane, 2005), chs 8 and 9; Pankaj Mishra, “The Western View of the Rise of India and China Is a Self-Affirming Fiction” http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1794502,00.html [published 10/06/06; accessed 10/07/06]
2. India did have thriving cottage industries such as in cotton which were, however, destroyed by the British Raj. Before the Opium Wars, China did have thriving commerce in Hong Kong, which then migrated to Shanghai (when Hong Kong was ceded to Britain) – as a result, Shanghai grew and developed to be the commercial and industrial center of China, until foreign invasions/occupations, wars and then civil war interrupted its growth and development.
3. For details, see Keekok Lee, Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics: Deep Science and Deep Technology (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
4. See Tan Chung, “China under the Impact of Modern Civilization,” http://ignca.nic.in/cd_05006.htm [accessed 07/2006]
5. See also Li Hongtu, “China’s Modernization: A Historical Survey,” http://w1.ens-Ish.fr/colloques/chine2004/china_modernization.pdg http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:MQ663mRNGUUJ: w1.ens-lsh.fr/colloques/chine2004/china_modernization.pdf+Modernization+and+China&hl= en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=7 ...
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