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Benedict Anderson's account, used by Jiang, of nations becoming imaginable through capitalism, print, communication technology, and language.
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Imagined communities
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Jiang uses Benedict Anderson to argue that print capitalism and communications technology turn linguistic diversity into national language, enabling people to imagine shared history and culture.
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"And he explains. What made the new communities imaginable was a half notorious, but explosive interaction between a system of production and productive relations,..."
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"History, it's all just made up. There's something real in it. Okay? And because of this, it's destroyed linguistic diversity. So if you were..."
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