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Classical/literary Chinese, treated by Jiang as a hard elite skill and bureaucratic monopoly language.
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Classical/literary Chinese, treated by Jiang as a hard elite skill and bureaucratic monopoly language.
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"Does that make sense? If you don't do it this way, if it's just the best and brightest, then what will happen is, like,..."
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"Okay? And that's where we have the alphabet. Because of this evolution of language in Egypt. It was the Egyptians who developed this system...."
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"...monopoly over status, literacy, and culture through three mechanisms. The Kuju, Wenyan, literary Chinese, and Confucianism. Okay? And that stopped the development of... That..."
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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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