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He interprets Hong Xiuquan and Mao Zedong as ambitious figures blocked by closed mobility channels, whose exclusion pushed them toward revolutionary alternatives.
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Hong Xiuquan
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...people do? They engage in revolution, right? So you look at Hong Xiuquan, right? He failed the kezhu or there was no position at..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...people do? They engage in revolution, right? So you look at Hong Xiuquan, right? He failed the kezhu or there was no position at..."
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He uses failed imperial examination candidates and Hong Xiuquan as examples of frustrated would-be elites leading revolutionary collapse.
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"...people do? They engage in revolution, right? So you look at Hong Xiuquan, right? He failed the kezhu or there was no position at..."
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"So he started, so he believed he became the brother of Jesus, right? And he started this revolution that claimed tens of millions of..."
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"...So, the most classic example of the failed Kejiu candidate is Hong Xiuquan. Do you guys know who he is? The leader of the..."
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"Because he failed the Kejiu. Okay? So, that's the idea of the overproduction of the elite. And he discovered this principle using mathematically modeling..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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