China's Renaissance: Real or Not Real

Many would argue that China's renaissance period was different from the actual period that occurred in Europe because of its effect on China and the time of the events when in reality, the two were the same. Europe's Renaissance or "Golden Age" was at the same time as China's and they both shared similarities in how their civilizations grew. China's occurred because of the Tang and the Song dynasties which established enduring patterns of Chinese life, with excellent poetry, landscape paintings, and ceramics coming out of this time period. They built infrastructure with major ministries in personnel, finance, rites, army, justice and public works. China went through a renaissance because their economy boomed, they created the wheelbarrow and gunpowder which were both revolutionary technologies for their civilization as well as on a global scale. There was also a rebirth of seminal thinking ideas which is characteristic of a renaissance period.