The Controversy Of China In The Late Eighteenth Century

There was controversy towards China from westerners Europeans and in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. After the invention of the compass and gunpowder, the Chinese seemed to not engage in making any new evolutionary progress. Until external connections entered China through the Eighteenth Century that brought new technologies and skills, that help boosts Chinas success

When Jesuits missionaries entered China, there was a controversy at first on the attempts to excite the interest of Chinese intellectuals towards Western scientific and technical accomplishments. Some of the great achievements made in this push towards new knowledge were the new skill of Cartography or science of map making, and geography. Which later was