The development path of philosophy and science only exists in the West, so Russell has a book called History of Western Philosophy.
But this name doesn't work in China. The corresponding China has a context, which can be called the history of China's thoughts. Under the protection of such a mysterious context, China took a road of paying equal attention to technology and art.
Why?
There are too many reasons, including words of course.
China characters, every word is a picture, please check Xiao Zhuan and even Oracle Bone Inscriptions, so China people have always been good at thinking in images.
In fact, the characters in western languages are not called characters at all, and the phonetic symbols are more accurate. These symbols only express sound, not meaning. If westerners want to express a meaning, they must use logical methods to connect a group of symbols to explain it. Therefore, westerners are good at logical thinking, which is one of the reasons why philosophy and science are only produced in the West.
The above mainly explains the problems of philosophy, scientific theory and writing, but after talking so much, it actually doesn't answer the questions of ideas.
Why are China Thought and China Culture so obscure and mysterious?