【正确答案】After making extensive and in-depth researches on the inventions in ancient China and their popularization, Joseph Lee, a famous scholar of contemporary England, came to the following conclusions: Without superior contribution made by ancient China in terms of science and technology, the entire process of our Western civilization would not be possible. It might well be asked, how could we imagine that we would have abrogated feudalism and adopted capitalism if there were no gunpowder, paper, printing and compass?