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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
Jiang says many American universities recruiting Chinese students are not equipped to support them, while American higher education itself faces student-debt and completion-rate problems that make Chinese enrollment only a temporary bandage.
"But the problem is... The problem is that these schools are not equipped to deal with Chinese students. So I mean, I visit these..."
"So I don't think this is a marriage made in heaven. I think there's a problem. There's some real serious issues that we need..."
"...and slit the guy's throat. Okay? And that was basically the graduation ceremony for the Spartans. This is a brutal brutal people. But guess..."
"...at night you could be um executed okay so as a graduation mission these young soldiers hide in the fields at night okay they..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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