how does china always recover?

Question

since a very long time ago, when the mongols invaded, they managed to turn the mongols into the chinese, and then, with the involvement of the westerners, they started having countless wars with hundreds of thousands of casualties such as the civil wars, and they had these losses over and over. How did they manage not to fall apart?

Answer 1

Your understanding of Chinese history is incomplete. Of course the "country" fell apart more than once.

Mongols? The mongols are only one group of "barbarians" to conquer the country. Uighur Turks, Huns, Mongols and Manchurians all conquered the country over the years, some groups more than once. The Ching Dynasty, the last, was Manchurian, not ethnic Chinese.

Most of what we now consider China was not part of the country throughout much of history. China was divided and re-divided among regional warlords repeatedly over the last 4000 years. What you see as "China" today includes vast portions of land that weren't considered part of the country even 100 years ago, such as Tibet and Manchuria.

It is the Chinese culture and writen language that unified what we consider China, not so much the government. (Remember, everyone in China wrote with the same symbolic Chinese writing system, even though they may have spoken mutually indecipherable languages, like Cantonese, Fukienese and Mandarin.) But, where a Chinese Imperial government did exercise control, generally the government was pretty good compared to governments in Europe and the rest of the world at the time. Only the Romans built a similarly competent governmental system in the west in the years prior to 1500.

Chinese is a culture, and that culture dominated the invaders who conquered the country militarily. The Chinese had a civil service for 3000 years under which the educated were promoted in government service. In the space one can devote to this kind of question in a yahoo note, I'd say that bureaucracy, language and culture conquered the Barbarians over time. Hey, who wouldn't rather live in a palace with Concubines rather than live in a Yurt and eat horsemeat? The good life seduced the barbarians!

Answer 2

Partly tradition, and partly an immense birthrate.

With their adherence to tradition, they've been able to outlast and/or absorb invaders, or mould conquerors into the Chinese mould.

In the end, China manages to overwhelm invaders, by sheer numbers if nothing else.g

Answer 3

In one word resiliency. Foresight also helped. Have you read "the art of war" by Sun Tzu? Correct the problem before it is a problem