A Brief History of World Modernization

Yin, Jun

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0530-6_4

Jun Yin²

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Abstract

The academic community generally believes that world modernization is a major transformation of human society from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, first appearing in the form of capitalism. Capitalism originated in Western Europe and emerged from feudal societies in Western Europe. Therefore, it can also be said that world modernization originated in Western Europe. But the modernization of Western Europe did not emerge out of thin air. Therefore, it is necessary to review the history of Western Europe from a long lens of history, and then discover where the modernization of Western Europe originated and why it took place first in Western Europe.

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Li (2013, p. 2–3).
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Li (2015, p. 1–6).
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Li and Bao (2005, p. 326).
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Li and Bao (2005, p. 328–329).
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Li (2015, p. 4–5).
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Li (2015, p. 9).
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Li (2015, p. 2–3).
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Selected Readings of Marxist Leninist Works and Mao Zedong's Works (Political Economy Part), compiled by the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, People's Publishing House, 1978, p. 110.
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[US] Rostow (1960, p. 4).
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Li (2015, p. 18).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 1).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 6–7).
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Luo and Li (2015, p.33).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 36).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 8–9).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 9).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 9).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 2–3).
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Luo and Li (2015, p. 4).
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Li and Bao (2005, p. 18).
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[US] Stavrianos (1990, p. 500–502).
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[US] Stavrianos (1990, p. 502).
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Ding et al. (2015, p. 14–18).
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Ding et al. (2015, p. 67).
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[US] Rostow (1960, p. 4).
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Ding et al. (2015, p. 68).
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Ding et al. (2015, p. 85).
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Ding et al. (2015, p. 88–90).
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Li (2014, p. 542–546).
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Li (2014, p. 547–551).
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Li (2015, p. 176–178).
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Li (2015, p. 187–188).
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Li (2015, p. 271–307).
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Wang and Liu (2015, p. 129–132).
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Wang and Liu (2015, p. 197).
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Wang and Liu (2015, p. 314–315).
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Li (2015, p. 189–191).
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Li (2015, p. 248).
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Li (2015, p. 255).
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Dong (2015, p. 1–11).
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Chen (2015, p. 4–16).
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Wang (2015, p. 1–37).
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Wang et al. (2015, p. 1–31).
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Li (2015, p. 5–37).
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Yin, J. (2024). A Brief History of World Modernization. In: Chinese Path to Modernization. Understanding China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0530-6_4

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