If you are reasonably acquainted with history, you should know that until recent 400 years Chinese had remarkable for its creativeness all through history. China had dominated the world in technology in much of the past 2 thousand years. The problem with the Chinese was that it had never developed its inventiveness into systematic and organized fashion like that of the industrialization. The advent of the industrial revolution in Europe had made the Chinese way very much obsolete. Due to its multiple social and political factors, Chinese society had at the same time become rigid and was unable to adapt to the new environment, very much the same way your idiot brain is now working.