The history of China is a succession of discontinuities as marked as those of the history of the Occident. It is not a national State with the clean direction, but a geopolitical unit, formatted by an imperial concept, in the manner of what was ancient Romania for the Mediterranean basin.
The historical shift of perception between the Occident and China thus holds so that, in a largely homogeneous Occident from the cultural point of view, the political conscience segmentary and is in general attached to nationality, whereas in China the situation is opposite: the political conscience is attached to the division of cultural values, independent of “nationality”.