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Jiang's semester model in which empire-borderland contact transfers energy and produces expansion, conflict, assimilation, destruction, or empire formation.
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oceanic currents of history
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...major thesis of the semester is the idea of the oceanic currents of history. And so one pattern that we see in history is..."
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Glossary
Jiang's model of history as interacting cultural ecosystems and currents that collide, energize, and develop without moralized line or cycle assumptions.
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"...major thesis of the semester is the idea of the oceanic currents of history. And so one pattern that we see in history is..."
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"And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself..."
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"...happen. Okay? And this model is what I call the oceanic currents of history. Imagine the world as a huge ocean. And within each..."
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"...By applying the theories we've learned so far Mainly the oceanic currents of history, right? So let's get started today. We're gonna look at..."
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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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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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