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China's loss of creativity after the Song follows from national unification: the center could control provinces in a way earlier dynasties could not.
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National Unity
China's loss of creativity after the Song follows from national unification: the center could control provinces in a way earlier dynasties could not.
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By localizing networks, the center gains national unity but sacrifices innovation and sustainability.
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Jiang argues that German invasion gave Stalin something more important than Lend-Lease: national unity around the Great Patriotic War and Mother Russia.
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"The Manchus are just another iteration of the Ming Empire. They will rule China until 1911, when the empire is overthrown, a republic is..."
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"China for the longest time was just too large, too diverse to be unified centrally. And as a result, the idea of open cooperative..."
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"...Okay. So the main benefit of this system is, of course, national unity. So again, during the Han, you have all these different provinces..."
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"...be challenged, and as a result, you give a semblance of national unity. But the problem with this, as we know, is it comes..."
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"...This is actually more important than land lease, which is what? National unity. Right? Now, all the Soviets were united in the fight against..."
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"Okay? So, and what turned the war was the will to fight. The Russians lost 26 million people in the war. That's a lot..."
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"...achieve really important national strategic goals. The first is to create national unity and to further legitimize the authority of the regime. As you..."
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"...just as dried out, and thus let the bands of our national unity also be just as torn apart, lying about in wild disorder,..."
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"...this is, and this creates the sense of national identity and national unity that still persists today. All right? And that's why I just..."
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"...obermanns, the supermen who could unite the German people and create national unity so the army could seek its vengeance against the rest of..."
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"...to another question, which is, how was China able to create national unity? All right? All right. So to answer this question, I want..."
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"...society the will to fight. Second, of course, is unity. Okay? National unity. And the third is culture. So the people who wrote the..."
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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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