Jiang's pejorative label for literary Chinese as a language only bureaucrats can understand.
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bureaucratese
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay? And that's where we have the alphabet. Because of this evolution of language in Egypt. It was the Egyptians who developed this system...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay? And that's where we have the alphabet. Because of this evolution of language in Egypt. It was the Egyptians who developed this system...."
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"Okay? And that's where we have the alphabet. Because of this evolution of language in Egypt. It was the Egyptians who developed this system...."
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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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