Multiple choice

How did China's culture limit industrialization progress?

  1. Citizens were against large families needed for Industry

  2. Women were to weave at home for families, not in factories

  3. Chinese workers were lazy and did't work like Westerners

  4. China couldn't export silk, their main good due to tradition

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Traditional Chinese culture emphasized the domestic role of women in textile production. This cultural expectation kept labor within the home, preventing the mass migration of women into factory settings that characterized industrialization elsewhere.