Undoubtedly, since the late Qing Dynasty, China has experienced great changes that have not been encountered in thousands of years. It has been forcibly incorporated into the world capitalist system. China has been the so-called marginal Far East but not the world center, and has been absent from world history and culture. The crisis of cultural identity has been constantly misunderstood, misinterpreted, and demonized. It is in this historical context that the discovery of the East and cultural output has become more important and urgent.
torical context in the above passage?
The great historical changes in China in the late Qing Dynasty