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Provincial elite networks fragmented away from national coordination so they compete locally rather than threaten the emperor.
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localized elites
Provincial elite networks fragmented away from national coordination so they compete locally rather than threaten the emperor.
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"But the centralized elite can always threaten the emperor, who is dependent on the elite for their support in the military and in government,..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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