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Jiang says sustained immersion in the Divine Comedy makes him feel physically lighter and dissolves the anger, claustrophobia, and resentment produced by daily life in Beijing.
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Jiang asks whether Dante in 1321 could have imagined that a multilingual group in Beijing would be discussing the Divine Comedy in 2026, turning literary interpretation into a question about truth surviving across centuries and cultures.
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Jiang accepts the previous line of thought as a good answer and re-asks whether Dante could have known that future readers in Beijing would still be reading him.
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Jiang closes by saying Putin is coming to Beijing that night and that Thursday's class will discuss Putin, which dates the lecture's forward-looking next step to the immediate week of 2026-05-19.
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Jiang assigns students to photograph Beijing by looking for unnoticed things and contrasts, adapting Talese's attention to New York into a local observational exercise.
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Jiang confirms that Predictive History is filmed from a real Beijing high school class with Chinese students.
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Jiang identifies translating for Gay Talese in Beijing in 1999 as a formative apprenticeship into journalism.
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Jiang predicts a short-term U.S.-China rapprochement, including a friendly Trump visit to Beijing on March 31, even though he thinks the underlying global order cannot be saved.
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"...I'm just really annoyed, okay, because like, I love walking. And Beijing is not a walking city, and it annoys me, I feel trapped."
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"I feel like I can't go outside, because if I go outside, a scooter might bump into me, and I'll get angry and all..."
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"...imagine that in the year 2026, that we would be in Beijing on this day, it's a multicultural, multilingual group of group, and that..."
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"...that one day we'd be reading this and discussing this in Beijing in 2026?"
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"...for us. Any more questions? Okay. So Putin is coming to Beijing tonight. So on Thursday, we'll discuss Putin."
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"Right. So I'm, I'm, I'm actually a high school teacher and I teach classes."
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"This is a high school class in Beijing. Yes. So these are Chinese students."
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"...it to you. I started from Yale and I went to Beijing to learn the language to sort of acclimatize myself into Chinese culture..."
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"...So even though this war has started, Trump will still visit Beijing March 31st, at the end of this month, for a three -day..."
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"moving towards a self -sufficient economy, then you are much more likely to be more likely to weather the storm that is coming."
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"...9th works for me. Perfect. So yeah. I'll be back in Beijing at that time. My kids are still here on the island. So..."
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"Okay. So what Carney wants, he doesn't care about the EVs, he doesn't care about selling canola to the Chinese. Who cares? That's opinions...."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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