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The Rise and Fall of the EAST

Pekingology

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The Importance of Ideology in China

In China you start taking an exam at the age of ten, and then get to the finish line by 65. So essentially for the rest of your life, starting at a very young age, you're exposed to one idea repeatedly. "You don't really have the capacity even to process a different idea," he says. He argues that Europe never had this kind of intellectual instrument that China has developed.

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