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Jiang argues that pirated American movies in the pre-internet era gave U.S. culture a sacred aura in China and embedded values of individualism, materialism, and neoliberalism in the Chinese imagination.
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Pirated DVDs
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...mean, it wasn't for free, but they had something called DVDs, pirated DVDs. So, so, so it was like, you know, a few cents,..."
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"...Chinese getting access to American culture? Well, they were getting through pirated DVDs. I'm not sure if you guys know what DVDs are, but..."
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"It was brilliant because Chinese had to secretly go buy these pirated DVDs. They were illegal, but they gave these DVDs a sense of,..."
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"...mean, it wasn't for free, but they had something called DVDs, pirated DVDs. So, so, so it was like, you know, a few cents,..."
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"...then you but during this time was really popular at least pirated DVDs showing these American movies and Chinese would buy up these pirated..."
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"...much a closed society. And at that time, people were buying pirated DVDs."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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