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Blameless secret. Indeed!

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A lot of 19th century writers like that, I do believe. I suppose that makes Kai Lung the predecessor of Charlie Chan.

"Smith’s decision to use certain types of exaggerated language in the context of his times established the “Chineseness” of his discourse."

That said, who's Smith?

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I recently listened to a Yascha Mounk Persuasion podcast with Rachel Fraser on standpoint theory. I was fascinated by her explanation of the difference between propositional knowledge and experiential knowledge. I wonder if Brammah was a propositional expert on China?

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