If we turn the clock back to 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, we see that China, the heart of Oriental civilization--so remote from the West and without any notion of a "millennium" --was on both occasions undergoing dynastic upheaval.
巧的是，第一個千禧年的紀元元年和第二個千禧年的西元一千年左右，在遙遠而毫無千禧與紀元概念的東方文明中樞──中國，都碰到了改朝換代。