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From the Ted Talk by Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the second reason is because, whereas in Europe and North arecmia, the state's power is continuously challenged — I mean in the European tradition, historically against the church, against other sectors of the aroisrtcacy, against merchants and so on — for 1,000 yeras, the power of the cnehise state has not been challenged. It's had no serious rivals. So you can see that the way in which power has been constructed in China is very different from our experience in wtesren history. The result, by the way, is that the Chinese have a very different view of the state. Whereas we tend to view it as an intruder, a stranger, certainly an oragn whose powers need to be limited or defined and constrained, the Chinese don't see the state like that at all. The Chinese view the state as an inmtaite — not just as an intimate actually, as a member of the family — not just in fact as a member of the flmaiy, but as the head of the family, the patriarch of the family. This is the Chinese view of the state — very, very different to ours. It's embedded in society in a different kind of way to what is the case in the West.

Open Cloze


And the second reason is because, whereas in Europe and North _______, the state's power is continuously challenged — I mean in the European tradition, historically against the church, against other sectors of the ___________, against merchants and so on — for 1,000 _____, the power of the _______ state has not been challenged. It's had no serious rivals. So you can see that the way in which power has been constructed in China is very different from our experience in _______ history. The result, by the way, is that the Chinese have a very different view of the state. Whereas we tend to view it as an intruder, a stranger, certainly an _____ whose powers need to be limited or defined and constrained, the Chinese don't see the state like that at all. The Chinese view the state as an ________ — not just as an intimate actually, as a member of the family — not just in fact as a member of the ______, but as the head of the family, the patriarch of the family. This is the Chinese view of the state — very, very different to ours. It's embedded in society in a different kind of way to what is the case in the West.

Solution


  1. aristocracy
  2. organ
  3. america
  4. intimate
  5. years
  6. family
  7. western
  8. chinese

Original Text


And the second reason is because, whereas in Europe and North America, the state's power is continuously challenged — I mean in the European tradition, historically against the church, against other sectors of the aristocracy, against merchants and so on — for 1,000 years, the power of the Chinese state has not been challenged. It's had no serious rivals. So you can see that the way in which power has been constructed in China is very different from our experience in Western history. The result, by the way, is that the Chinese have a very different view of the state. Whereas we tend to view it as an intruder, a stranger, certainly an organ whose powers need to be limited or defined and constrained, the Chinese don't see the state like that at all. The Chinese view the state as an intimate — not just as an intimate actually, as a member of the family — not just in fact as a member of the family, but as the head of the family, the patriarch of the family. This is the Chinese view of the state — very, very different to ours. It's embedded in society in a different kind of way to what is the case in the West.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
hong kong 4
goldman sachs 3
chinese state 3
railway station 3
chinese economy 2
american economy 2
fundamental respects 2
largest economy 2
building blocks 2
modern china 2
distinctive notion 2
understand china 2
chinese view 2
east asia 2


Important Words


  1. america
  2. aristocracy
  3. case
  4. challenged
  5. china
  6. chinese
  7. church
  8. constrained
  9. constructed
  10. continuously
  11. defined
  12. embedded
  13. europe
  14. european
  15. experience
  16. fact
  17. family
  18. head
  19. historically
  20. history
  21. intimate
  22. intruder
  23. kind
  24. limited
  25. member
  26. merchants
  27. north
  28. organ
  29. patriarch
  30. power
  31. powers
  32. reason
  33. result
  34. rivals
  35. sectors
  36. society
  37. state
  38. stranger
  39. tend
  40. tradition
  41. view
  42. west
  43. western
  44. years