Jiang contrasts bureaucratic culture with affective culture: the center domesticates live thought into administratively acceptable doctrine.
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bureaucratic culture
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"...of many individuals that transmit their ideas across time and across culture. The third thing is that Europe was never unified. To a point..."
"And this is something that every regime has done. So even though regimes change, their policy of censorship has maintained. And that's why when..."
"...invincible. It's a middle kingdom, and it's never really developed a culture of self -reflection and open -mindedness and innovation. Much more problematic is..."
"...Dynasty, 1200 CE, had all four invasions. But because of the culture in place, because of the bureaucratic culture in place, neither, not any..."
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