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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2024-10-10, day precision Aliases: literacy-monopolies

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Literacy Monopoly

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "China isolated, but it was stable for most of its history because for most of China's history, China was run by a class of..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "China isolated, but it was stable for most of its history because for most of China's history, China was run by a class of..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human (2024-10-10, day precision).

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Comparative historical claim in the lecture.

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Classical Chinese is described as a language created or intensified by elites so that only they could master literacy.

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