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The political function of the Keju is to concentrate elite ambition away from rebellion, invention, and independent literature.
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Elite Ambition
The political function of the Keju is to concentrate elite ambition away from rebellion, invention, and independent literature.
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"You don't have to work. Okay? So in other words, only the elite families of China can compete in the system. And that's the..."
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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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