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A written language associated here with elite literacy monopoly and mastery by scholar officials.
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Classical Chinese
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is testing your knowledge of something called Wen Yan. Okay? Or classical Chinese. Classical literary Chinese. Okay? This is a very hard skill to..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is testing your knowledge of something called Wen Yan. Okay? Or classical Chinese. Classical literary Chinese. Okay? This is a very hard skill to..."
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Classical Chinese is described as a language created or intensified by elites so that only they could master literacy.
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"...way they did so is by creating a new language called Classical Chinese. Literally Chinese. Okay? Does that make sense? That's why there was..."
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"...is testing your knowledge of something called Wen Yan. Okay? Or classical Chinese. Classical literary Chinese. Okay? This is a very hard skill to..."
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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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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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