Much has been made lately of China's imminent transition from a resource to be exploited by extra-national creative forces to a technologically mature locus for indigenous intellectual innovation.
Though an exiting prospect, there may be considerably more to the story. Current events may be but harbingers of a far more provocative issue: can the breadth of ingenuity brought to the received knowledge of the West by the Chinese profoundly alter our consensual reality?
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