How do Chinese people learn from the West?

The American Acheson told us Chinese many jokes and legends in modern history. For example, China has too many people and can only buy bread from Americans. Today, many of our great professors are quite capable of telling stories and legends about modern history. There is a great professor named Zhang at the National People’s Congress who “talks about history” in a relaxed and cheerful way. His books and articles are very unique! In his opinion, the modern history of China should be that the Chinese people did not learn enough and not well enough from the Westerners. The implication is that the Chinese people not only had no bread to eat, but also were beaten. When Mao Zedong refuted Acheson, he said that since the emergence of good ideas, the spirit of the Chinese people has shifted from passivity to initiative. Practice and facts show that the Chinese actually learn well. Long before that, Lin Zexu opened his eyes to the world and righteously banned and burned the opium of British merchants; during the May Fourth Movement, the Chinese made their voice known to the world; from the resistance against Japan behind enemy lines to the war of liberation, the Chinese made their own right choices ; After the founding of New China, revolutionary construction has also been fruitful, and today's world is special. In other words, unlike in the past, Chinese people learned to use the good things of the West and found their own way out. The difference is that the learned professors do not think so and do not take it seriously. Opium is not bad, it can teach the Chinese people the business rules in international trade; although the Beiyang Navy retains no pieces of armor, it has learned good technology from the West after all; even if the democratic revolution is very chaotic, China People finally received the enlightenment of democracy and freedom. In their view, only by integrating into world trends can they achieve good results, and this is a somewhat technical job. From this point of view, the Chinese did not learn very well and paid a heavy price. However, they seemed to be lucky enough to catch up with the trend of the mainstream world. The amazing thing is that history is very ruthless, and the Chinese people have walked their own path without hesitation and do not follow the trend.