The Question Of Needham And Switch

As an important issue of the Chinese history of science andtechnology and the Comparison of Chinese and Western Science, Scholarsat home and abroad had great interest and concern on “The NeedhamQuestion” since the present day. All scholars try their best to discuss andsolve The Needham Question form different point of views, This paper givesome scholars’ explanation and viewpoint at home and abroad and try tofind “The Needham Question” conversion point of view and thinking fromthe solution and question based on representations and proposed process of“The Needham Question”. The emergence of efficient economicorganization is the root of the rise and fall between Chinese and western through to the analysis of the Chinese society in the long-term existence ofthe feudal system and the “North’s institutional change theory”. Thedemocratic governance、market economy、values of the secular trend is theimportant catalyst of the traditional society to the modern civilization basedon the comparison of the political、ideological、economic and technologicalbetween China and Britain.