From Harmony to Discord

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Part four, of the China in the Shadow of Mr. Kong five-part series, examines China's decent into chaos. While music, theater, architecture, and paintings illustrated an emotionally intelligent society in harmony with their natural surroundings, the Chinese failed to take advantage of their own technological advancements and isolated themselves from the humanistic ideologies of the European Renaissance. The tyranny of the Manchu dynasty and forced foreign trade marked the beginning and the end of the great China Empire.