In the Chinese-speaking world, sentences often end before they are truly finished. And yet, listeners understand. That’s the efficiency of language—and the subtlety of power. “You shouldn’t do that.”“Be considerate of your parents.”No explanation needed, no room for reply. Beneath such phrases lies an entire apparatus of discipline: a structure that defines what is proper, normal...
How We Learned to Be Disciplined—and Came to Discipline Others in Turn
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