In this chapter he explains the differences of Greeks and Chinese in terms of cognitive process by looking at their history. His explanation of these two countries' geographic conditions were quite cognitive and the two illustrations of the influences on cognitive processes were interesting.
However, I couldn't agree with the idea that Chinese lacked curiosity. Why did he actually think that Chinese were not interested in other country's culture? I once read in a book that when Chinese visited Africa for the first time and saw giraffes, they were very impressed because there was an animal with a long neck called qi lin in Chinese legends. ( I'm not sure which book it was.. Maybe sometime I'll find it out...Sorry) Whatever, I think his opinion is quite extreme and hard to agree.
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