What's the word?

myopia (noun): nearsightedness. lack of imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

I found this word in the book, New China New Art by Richard Vine.

Here is how the word used in the book.

Why was the Western art public so unaware of this well-developed phenomenon? And given what we recalled of pastwar events in the PRC–the decades of Maoist regimentation, the ideological hysteria of the Cultural Revolution, the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown–how could it have happened? What had we missed, and what other marvels would the New China yield?

In large part, such wonder was due to our own myopia.