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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...process of storytelling. All right. So, let's imagine three universities. Ohio State University, Connecticut and Middlebury and they all have their own local legends...."
He says cash-strapped American state universities are aggressively recruiting Chinese students because recession-era budget cuts make full-fee international students financially attractive.
Jiang argues public state universities have abandoned their middle-class and democratic public mission in favor of a more corporatist mentality.
"I think that a lot of people believe... made in heaven, but if you actually look at what's happening, it's a marriage made in..."
"...a lot of these schools who do the recruiting are public state universities founded on a mission to expand America's middle class, to expand..."
"And they've basically forsaken their public school mission and moving towards more a corporatist mentality. So I think that first and foremost these schools...."
"...process of storytelling. All right. So, let's imagine three universities. Ohio State University, Connecticut and Middlebury and they all have their own local legends...."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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