China

In North China there is a certain blending of Caucasoid and Mongoloid types 81:4.14

China is favored by geography. It is protected by the mountains to the west and the Pacific to the east. 79:6.12

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Cultural evolution

• The Neanderthalers were excellent fighters, and they traveled extensively. They gradually spread from the highland centers in northwest India to France on the west, China on the east, and even down into northern Africa. 64:4.1
• About 85,000 thousand years ago the comparatively pure remnants of the red race went en masse across to North America. But throughout Siberia, China, central Asia, India, and Europe they left behind much of their stock blended 64:6.5
• It is almost 40,000 years since the first important advances were made in Chinese culture 79:8.16
• About 15,000 B.C. increasing population pressure throughout Turkestan and Iran occasioned the first really extensive Andite movement toward India. This Andite pressure from the northwest drove many of the southern and eastern inferiors into Burma and southern China 79:2.4
• The Andites not only migrated to Europe but to northern China and India. Many of this race journeyed to China by way of both Sinkiang and Tibet and added desirable qualities to the later Chinese stocks. 78:5.5-6 79:1.1
• 20,000 years ago the ancestors of the Chinese had built up a dozen strong centers of primitive culture and learning, especially along the Yellow River and the Yangtze. 79:6.5
• About 15,000 years ago the Andites, in considerable numbers, were traversing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading out over the upper valley of the Yellow River among the Chinese settlements of Kansu. The northern Chinese received just enough of the Andite strain to mildly stimulate their innately able minds 79:7
• The Chinese people did not begin to build cities and engage in manufacture until after 10,000 B.C., 79:1.4 79:7.5
• The climatic destruction of the rich, open grassland hunting and grazing grounds of Turkestan, beginning about 12,000 B.C., compelled the men of those regions, and also China, to engaeg in trade 81:3.1
• Chinese early learned the value of peace among themselves. Their internal peaceableness so contributed to population increase as to insure the spread of their civilization among many millions. From 25,000 to 5,000 B.C. the highest mass civilization was in central and northern China. China was first to achieve a racial solidarity—a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization. 79:6.8
• The similarities between certain of the early Chinese and Mesopotamian methods of time reckoning, astronomy, and governmental administration were due to the commercial relationships between them 79:7.6
• Between 4000 and 500 B. C. the political reunification of the yellow race was consummated, but the cultural union of the Yangtze and Yellow river centers had already been effected. 79:8.5

Political evolution

• The progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in China since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties, something that distinguish China from the rest of the world. 134:5.9
• In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers—the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East—and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. 134:5.1

Religious evolution

• Asoka, a low-caste monarch, established Buddhism in a good portion of Eastern, including China 94:9.1
• Buddhism entered China in the first millennium after Christ, and it fitted well into the religious customs of the yellow race. 94:11.1
• Salem missionaries penetrated all Europe and one group traversed China. Salemite teachers commissioned by Melchizedek and his successors did not default in their trust; they did penetrate to all peoples of the Eurasian continent, and in 1,500 B.C. they arrived in China. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there training Chinese teachers who taught throughout all the domains of the yellow race. It was in direct consequence of this teaching that the earliest form of Taoism arose in China 93:7.2 94:5
• China lived a religious awakening in 600 B.C. 79:8.15
• This was when China followed Taoist and Confucian teachings 92:6.15
• it was regrettable that there was no one like Peter to go into China, or like Paul to enter India, where the spiritual soil was then so favorable for planting the seed of the new gospel of the kingdom 130:2.3 130:3.3

Education in China

• Soon developments in writing, together with the establishment of schools, contributed to the dissemination of knowledge on a previously unequaled scale. But the cumbersome nature of the ideographic writing system placed a numerical limit upon the learned classes despite the early appearance of printing. 79:8.7
• the library at Alexandria contained manuscripts from China 130:3.4

Geology

• 360,000,000 years ago there were no great ice sheets. The supposed glacial deposits appearing in connection with these strata in China are due to isolated mountain glaciers 59:1.17
• There is also a red sandstone stratum which characterizes one of the Devonian sedimentations, and this red layer extends over much of the earth’s surface, being found in China 59:4.7
• 180,000,000 years ago brought the close of the Carboniferous period, during which coal had been formed all over the world including China 59:5.20
• 120,000,000 years ago most of China and Russia was inundated 60:2.6

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Gospel of the Kingdom 130:2.3 — Mt 4:3; Mt 9:35; Mt 24:14; Mk 1:14-15.

Where it appears

China is linked in 35 paragraphs of the text.

See also

• Chinese
• Honan
• Kansu
• Shensi
• Ti Tao
• Yangtze River
• yellow race
• Yellow River

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