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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "um a book that I would recommend uh to your listeners is seeing the state by James Scott yeah he makes the argument that..."
Jiang argues that bureaucracy transforms society into a form that can be more easily managed from the center, and that one of its key effects is the elimination of organic local ideas and traditions.
"um a book that I would recommend uh to your listeners is seeing the state by James Scott yeah he makes the argument that..."
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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