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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah, yeah, definitely. Because I think... I don't know why you come here to this classroom, but I do because I think I've just..."
One student says Dante feels present not as a spirit inhabiting him but as an interpretive mirror for his own sense of exile from mainstream social and work life.
Jiang says Chinese students placed into American classrooms after being shaped by the Chinese system often become socially alienated from professors and classmates.
"Yeah, yeah, definitely. Because I think... I don't know why you come here to this classroom, but I do because I think I've just..."
"In China, the Chinese school system does not allow you to ask... Does not permit you to ask questions, doesn't want you to think..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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