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The Tang-dynasty civil war Jiang treats as the formative Chinese lesson that independent generals are an internal danger greater than external enemies.
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An Lushan Rebellion
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...height of its power. And this incident was called the An Lushan Rebellion. And so what happened was that the Tang Emperor was expanding..."
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Jiang says the An Lushan Rebellion became the defining trauma that taught Chinese rulers never to let a brilliant and independent general become powerful enough to challenge the political center.
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"...height of its power. And this incident was called the An Lushan Rebellion. And so what happened was that the Tang Emperor was expanding..."
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"And after that, after that, the main lesson is you can never allow a general to be great and to be independent. It is..."
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"...to fight wars, and this will eventually lead to the An Lushan Rebellion, okay? Which lasts for almost 10 years. An Lushan is the..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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