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Social relationship power, opposed here to Jiang's earlier belief in a clean hierarchy of ideas.
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guanxi
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Right. So again, I was very naive when I was at Yale. You know, I was a poor person. I had absolutely no idea..."
Key Notes
Glossary
Personal connection networks that parents fear would replace exam merit if Gaokao were removed.
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diagnosis
Jiang says his youthful Yale belief was that the world was a meritocratic hierarchy of ideas, but post-Yale failure taught him that power runs through guanxi and who one knows.
model
Parents fear that without Gaokao, guanxi and elite monopoly will replace merit and leave middle- and lower-class families worse off.
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Jiang argues China and the West are not a good marriage educationally: Chinese schools train not talking, not questioning authority, going with the flow, and leveraging guanxi networks, while American schools demand unique participation and argument.
diagnosis
He says China has a serious empathy problem, illustrated by weak concern for strangers and by social bonds that function inside kin or guanxi networks more than across society at large.
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"Right. So again, I was very naive when I was at Yale. You know, I was a poor person. I had absolutely no idea..."
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"...recognized that that's not how the world works, man. It's all guanxi. It's all who you know. And so for about 10 plus years,..."
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"...have a test score, all that we're going to have is guanxi. And so if we are middle class or we're lower class, we're..."
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"But at the same time, because I've had this experience and because I see the dangers, the inherent dangers of Chinese encountering a Western..."
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"The professor expects you to say something interesting or unique in classroom discussion. The professor expects you to write a paper and advocate your..."
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"Yeah I mean I love talking about empathy. Empathy is something that I discovered that was really emphasized in the Finnish school system. So..."
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"There was real no emotional attachment to strangers. Now in China there's a lot like emotional attachment to your relatives and the people you..."
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"...if you're smart no one cares okay it's all about your guanxi about we're your family okay but it's true for actually this is..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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