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3 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
“I think one other remarkable thing about Stendhal is just that he inspires passion among those of us who appreciate the Italian ecstatic commitment to the art of song.”
— Dan Wang
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- 3 Dec 2025
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…I like him very much, but I’ve never loved it. It feels distant to me. That’s a notable difference between us. Stendhal has had some very passionate fans. John F. Kennedy read a lot of Stendhal. Robert Alter, before he translated the Torah, wrote a biography of Stendhal called A Lion for Love. I think one other remarkable thing about Stendhal is just that he inspires passion among those of us who appreciate the Italian ecstatic commitment to the art of song. I will reread. Before the last two questions, let me just plug your book again, which I was very happy to have blurbed. Dan Wang, it is Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. Final two questions, possibly related. First, what do you want to learn about next? Second, what will you do next?…
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