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Palladium Podcast 66: Geremie Barmé on the Lessons of Chinese Upheaval

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How to Turn on and Turn Off Rhetoric

When i was in China, my chinese was the most fluent among my cohort of foreign students. So i was always pushed by my classmates to be the spokes person when we had a clash with the authorities. Working with normal people was just unbelievable, incredably warm, interesting people who are who treated all the political stuff with ido. I guess this dynamic kind of plays out in different ways, you know, across different cultural scripts. But that's what began in the fifties, is learning how to turn on, how to learn off by heart the rhetoric,. so you keep out of trouble, but fack up other people and put on a performance that is powerful and convincing.

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