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Confucian bureaucratic elites whose power comes from reading, writing, and information transport.
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scholar officials
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...for it in China before in history. We call them the scholar officials. Right? Another name for them is something called the professional manager...."
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Scholar officials' secret power was literacy, which made them indispensable to the emperor and gave them a monopoly they did not want to give up.
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In Jiang's account of Confucian hierarchy, scholar officials sit at the top, farmers and artisans below them, merchants below that, and artists or poets at the bottom.
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"...China's history, China was run by a class of people called scholar officials. Right? Confucian scholars. What was their power? What was their secret..."
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"Does that make sense, guys? Excuse me? Because the scholar officials, they were in charge of bureaucracy, right? If you're running a bureaucracy, you..."
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"And then, at the very bottom are who? The artists, right? The poets. In Greece, this was the complete opposite. They placed Homer at..."
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"...for it in China before in history. We call them the scholar officials. Right? Another name for them is something called the professional manager...."
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"So, what's important is to protect the Confucian culture, which puts scholar officials, bureaucrats at the top of society. So, you can have the..."
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"...status in China. So go back to the Confucian system. The scholar officials are at the top. Then you have the farmers. Then you..."
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"Chinese history the most virtuous people are always bureaucrats scholar officials right and this propaganda is so effective that eventually Europeans will stop what..."
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"...name is hong xiu trent and he's trying to become a scholar official by taking the national by taking the um examination and he's..."
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"...reading the confusion classics and if you want to become a scholar official you have to memorize the confusion classics right the same concept..."
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"In China, it's the complete opposite because if you're a scholar official, what you're most afraid of is independent thinking, okay? So censorship, censorship..."
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