Why wasn't the steam engine invented in China?

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Disappointing. Does not mention any of the extensive literature on the subject of innovation in pre-twentieth-century China.

Can you share what you have?

I have discussed what I think are the primary reasons in this story and criticized some other theories I often see such as Mongols stopping industrialization or China not being capitalist enough.

> China not being capitalist enough.

did they came up with the gunpowder because they were capitalist enough but Europeans not?

Fusion energy R&D is mostly funded by governments, is it because the world is not capitalist enough?

the semiconductor industry is dominated by Asia, does that mean that EU/NA is not capitalist enough?

saying something "isn't capitalist enough" is disrespecting the people who actually dedicate their life to research

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