China industrialization

So why did China not industrialize first? Why did it happen in Europe? Politics, Culture, Geography, People etc. Any book recommendations on this?

For why Europe got there first even though China was already burning coal before them, google the Qing Conquest Theory and the High-Level Equilibrium Trap.

For why China failed to modernize when Europe showed up on their doorstep while Japan succeeded, it's because Manchu Qing were isolationist retards, authority was breaking down and causing stupid shit like the Taiping Rebellion, and Empress Dowager Cixi was a moron

But they did?

I have a better question.
Why did China industrialize?

Why not live a happy life on your farm, with your 2 children and wife? Why spend all day working at a production line?

Industrialization was not inherently a good thing, however, it requires other nations to adjust once others do it or you can no longer compete.

Institutional power was held by groups/classes of people who believed it to be detrimental to themselves if they allowed modernization/industrialization/liberalization to take place.
France also had similar problems which in large part triggered the French revolution.

>Why not live a happy life on your farm, with your 2 children and wife?
Do you even have the faintest idea how pre-industrial agriculture (especially rice cultivation) works, and how clan-oriented Chinese culture was?

I also have a better question.

Why are you so naive, ignorant and stupid?

>Why not live a happy life on your farm, with your 2 children and wife? Why spend all day working at a production line?
Because not every subsistence farmer is a welfare queen collecting subsidies from the U.S government to maintain their comfortable lifestyle.

In places without governments to prop them up, life of a subsistence farmer is one of impoverishment and constantly teetering on the border of starvation before finally losing your farm because you're trying to compete against farms with far larger output

Before the Qing they also had a long term ban on naval trade to prevent the emergence of a politically powerful merchant class.

cultural momentum of thousands of years of thinking you are the center of the universe and things are fine as is.

Europe was always in a state of conflict. which brought a culture of conquest, expansion,and seeking better ways to do things. Which brought the Enlightenment and Liberalism.