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Jiang says Chinese historical imagination overvalues genius figures such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, while Thucydides cares more about large structural forces that drive states.
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Jiang says Chinese historical imagination overvalues genius figures such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, while Thucydides cares more about large structural forces that drive states.
"ance a sort of coordinating mechanism for how people should behave Okay so that 's the second major difference The third major difference and..."
"...the long term. But it's driven by hubris. It's driven by structural forces as well. So I think that's one area of contention that..."
"...want to talk about is the idea of genius vers us structural force So if you read The Romans of the Three Kingdom s..."
"...matter who cares What matters are these larger h istor ical structural forces in play that drive"
"...blowing up the North Stream pipeline, America has basically unleashed these structural forces that will culminate in a possible alliance between Germany and Russia...."
"...he's that's what he's curious about he's not interested in these structural forces that drive conflict and persecution among these people okay that comes..."
"...is, what it helps people do is take all these new structural forces that are being unleashed onto the world and understand it in..."
"...but as I will show you this semester, there are historical structural forces that make this conflict possibly the beginning of World War Three...."
"...the history of the United States, if you study the historical structural forces that drive global conflict, then you will understand what's going on,..."
"...themselves. And again, this is a metaphor, a symbol for these structural forces that govern the universe. Does that make sense? Alright. So, when..."
"...Okay? The only thing I can do is look at the structural forces and conclude that a civil war is very likely and that..."
A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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