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Jiang says that even if Laozi and Confucius were originally great thinkers, successive Chinese regimes hollowed them out through censorship and bureaucratic editing, leaving later readers only an acceptable shell.
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Laozi
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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"...to a bureaucratic culture as opposed to an effectual culture. Maybe Laozi and Confucius. Maybe they were... Amazing thinkers. But over time, what happens..."
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"...policy of censorship has maintained. And that's why when you read Laozi. When you read the Analects. When you read anything from Chinese literature,..."
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"...states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay all right and and if you just look..."
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"...creativity came from, from that period. Confucius came from that period. Laozi, okay? A lot of major intellectual breakthroughs came from that period, okay?..."
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