To: Ilaine who wrote (6626 ) 8/4/2001 7:57:39 AM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to Oh, I see, he is one of those literal minded people who read 'stone age' as literally meaning Neolithic. It was a figure of speech CB. In the thick of the cultural revolution, great leaps backwards and mayhem of the communist years, based on a primitive agrarian society, and power growing out of the barrel of a gun, I think 'stone age' is appropriate. He means the Chinese weren't, and aren't, living in the Stone Age, otherwise known as the Neolithic. They were reading, writing, living in cities, wearing fine garments woven out of silk, had orchestral music, astronomy, medicine, architecture, mathematics etc. etc. while your ancestors (and mine) were wearing fur skins and painting themselves blue. Excellent philosophers, too. >
