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Jiang says he deliberately refused obvious wealth-making opportunities during China's 2008 education boom because becoming rich would have required dependence on investors, officials, and business partners, costing him intellectual independence.
Jiang argues that, for him, remaining a normal person in China has preserved creativity and intellectual freedom better than life in Canada, the United States, or Australia would have.
"Yeah, so the rule that I learned in China is, if you don't get in people's way, if you don't really try to make..."
"I'm a Yale graduate, and I knew a lot of mission officers in America, and I could have easily, easily started a construction company...."
"...is capacity to be creative what matters to me is my intellectual independence and i think that i'm able to do this in china..."
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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