"Peasants are more sophisticated these days, " says Wang Qin, a math teacher in a Hubei village school.
The first unambiguously modern state, Mr Fukuyama believes, was the Qin dynasty in China, founded in 221BC.
Qin Island, an aquaculture farm that is the closest to the June spills, has a lot to lose.
"Every family here is reaping profits from the Qin army, " says Feng Dong, manager of the museum's Friendship Store.
Down here, Liu Qin-Zheng practises his art with no hurry and clear enjoyment.
Responding to reporters' questions, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang acknowledges the controversy over the software in and outside China.
Jeff Zhou, Glen Zhang, Grace Shi, Raymond Liu, Lydia Chen, Bobby Hao, Anita Qi, Tracy Tu, Ada Qin (Forbes China).
Lydia Chen, Raymond Liu, Phil Xie, Ada Qin, Echo Yang, Rice Mi, Sunny Jiang, Rachel Lu and Tracy Tong (forbes china).
The crush of visitors has spawned a cottage industry of spinoffs, ranging from the Qin Army Hostel to Qin Army Powdered Milk.
Qin's dynasty was overthrown, however, just a few years after his death.
Battalions of farmers-turned-entrepreneurs stalk the vicinity of the Qin museum, hawking trinkets.
Qin formed a centralized, autocratic government, built a nationwide network of roads and canals, standardized weights, measures and currency and formalized the written language.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that China had always "actively balanced its work between the Syrian government and the opposition".
Excavations showed the clay torsos were part of a legion of life-size terra-cotta soldiers and horses, deployed 22 centuries ago by the eccentric Emperor Qin Shihuang.
Qin, who took gold in this year's synchronized dive event, lost his balance on the penultimate dive and scored only half of what had been expected.
The clay figures, 8, 000 in all, were actual likenesses of Qin's army, cloned in clay to guard him in death as his real soldiers had in life.
It is probably something Qin Shi Huang would have appreciated.
It was the second time in two days the foreign ministry had condemned the remarks - on Sunday, spokesman Qin Gang said the ministry "resolutely opposes" the US remarks.
The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.
It is also where the Silk Road ended in the East and is home to the famed army of terracotta soldiers that belonged to the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang.
Many of the control mechanisms perfected by the Qin had developed during the preceding 500 years or so of the Eastern Zhou dynasty when a host of small warring states across China began to coalesce.
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