"Asian development cannot in any way be reduced to a uniform category, left over after the canons of European evolution have been established... It is merely in the night of our own ignorance that all alien shapes take on the same hue."
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Perry Anderson, quoted in John M. Hobson. The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation. New York: Bridge University Press, 2004.
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