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Wang Yuhua's paradox, as Jiang presents it, is that China's wealth and imperial security move in opposite directions: rich Tang emperors are vulnerable, poorer Qing emperors are stable.
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Wang Yuhua
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...this question, I want to refer to the work of Professor Wang Yuhua. He is a professor of Chinese history at Harvard, okay? And..."
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"...this question, I want to refer to the work of Professor Wang Yuhua. He is a professor of Chinese history at Harvard, okay? And..."
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"Five emperors, at least five emperors, during the Tang Dynasty were deposed by the elite. The aristocracy got together and were through the emperor,..."
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"That's a paradox that Professor Wang Yuhua is trying to answer in his book. Okay. So he, so, I mean, he is, he used..."
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"All right. And what Professor Wang Yuhua says is the main mechanism that the emperor used in order to achieve this radical cultural shift..."
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"...It eliminated the idea of aristocracy in China. Okay. So Professor Wang Yuhua. What he does is he shows you how networks work in..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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