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The durable hierarchy of scholar-officials and bureaucrats that Jiang identifies as the continuity of Chinese civilization.
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Confucian bureaucracy
The durable hierarchy of scholar-officials and bureaucrats that Jiang identifies as the continuity of Chinese civilization.
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"...is hard to understand, but what Chinese civilization is, it's a bureaucracy, okay? Bureaucracy. Because a bureaucracy represents a social hierarchy, okay? Confucianism. If..."
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"...emperor doesn't really matter in this system. What matters is the bureaucracy. And that has been consistent for 2,000 years. Does that make sense?..."
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"...and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest bureaucracy. Okay? Which is very much like the Confucian bureaucracy in China. And..."
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