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At first glance it may seem that the spirit of China is closer to Western Europe than to India. In China there is more stress on practical social issues and on organization of the state than on fathoming the depths of the human soul in a search for the abstracted essence of being.
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© 2004 Jaroslav Krejčí
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Krejčí, J. (2004). Eastern Asia. In: The Paths of Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503700_11
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