Here is a chapter of "The continuity of the cultural field" that addresses the origins of the night and day difference between the civilizations of the West and of China.
2.2.4. shared worldviews stabilized early power societies
While writing my earlier books I published a first draft week after week.
For the present book I will, from time to time, publish some parts that I think illustrate a particular flavor of our present air of the time.
Here follows this commentary :