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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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..."
"...to the eternal fountain okay so this is almost like a graduation right where"
"...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 the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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