In Korea and Japan, the Chinese example began to find fertile ground as the political and social organization or those regions developed toward civilized complexity. Buddhist monks became the principle carriers of high Chinese culture to Korea and Japan.... The Chinese model, while of the utmost importance, never eclipsed the local differences that made Japan always and Korea sometimes so distinct from China as properly to constitute a separate civilization.


The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963)

William Hardy McNeill Quotes

In Korea and Japan, the Chinese example began to find fertile ground as the political and social organization or those regions developed toward...

In Korea and Japan, the Chinese example began to find fertile ground as the political and social organization or those regions developed toward...

In Korea and Japan, the Chinese example began to find fertile ground as the political and social organization or those regions developed toward...

In Korea and Japan, the Chinese example began to find fertile ground as the political and social organization or those regions developed toward...