During the Han Dynasty, the Chinese Consciousness Appears to Have

During the Han Dynasty, the Chinese consciousness appears to have become rooted in the belief that

A) Westerners were inherently evil.
B) the Chinese people were the greatest society that had ever existed.
C) goods produced in the West, along with Western ideas, were of no use to the Chinese.
D) trade difficulties were insurmountable, making Chinese exclusion the only option.
E) the Chinese had a duty to share their knowledge with the rest of the civilized world.