All agrarian cultures are conservative, both eastern and western, without exception  The profound reason is that in the mode of production based on manual labor, keeping the old mode of production intact was the primary condition for the survival of all industrial classes in the past (Selected Works of Marx and Engels)
Western culture, especially in the west of Renaissance and 18 th-century science are profundity of qualitative change happened after the industrial revolution, triggered opposition and conflict between Chinese and western, and Chinese on the natural scientific development lags behind, the root cause is that based on machine for the production of the commodity economy has replaced the modes of production and exchange in the natural economy of production on the basis of hand tools Way
From the outside to the inside, this paper analyzes the deep causes of the confrontation and conflict between China and the West from the perspective of historical cultural phenomena