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Zhang Yongle's arguments to Chinese students on why *not* to study abroad are amusing and sometimes very truthful. I think a lot of Chinese in the West will feel like this resonates with them:
https://www.readingthechinadream.com/zhang-yongle-the-harm-of-studying-abroad.html
https://www.readingthechinadream.com/zhang-yongle-the-harm-of-studying-abroad.html
This very much describes the 'wolf pups'
Here Zhang keys in on something I have pondered on before: China has a broader class of public intellectuals than America does. In America, we have experts who vacillate between extreme expertise in a very narrow issue and general echoing of whatever their social milieu says
about things on twitter. Very very few true scholars as "general purpose" public intellectuals. Scholars stick to their narrow realm and public comment is mostly decided by the types who write for Vox and their endless variations.
In China, in contrast, there is this expectation that great scholars *should* be great public voices in general, and bring the same commitment to scholarship with them. Zhang might be centering in on one of the reasons for why we do not do this as well.
