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Oct 20, 2026
Cheryl BrodersenHOST
I had forgotten I had such a home, this side of heaven.
Cheryl BrodersenHOST
How much we have to be thankful for our little home in Kunshan and the church there have been kept safe for us when almost the rest of the town is in ruins.
Cheryl BrodersenHOST
And again, that had to do a lot with the German women who were overseeing the
Mary PeroGUEST
compound there.
Chris StewartHOST
However, the majority of his insights came from memorials, both routine and secret, which allowed him to monitor factional struggles over the succession, local finances, and the personal conduct of his own officials.
Chris StewartHOST
The accusations against Xu Quanzhi's family from 1689-91, which were lodged by commoners and junior degree holders both throughout Kunshan and Taichung counties in Jiangsu, illustrate the scale of such problems.
Chris StewartHOST
These charges, often going so far as to name the accuser directly and supported by at least one other local witness, reveal how younger Shu family members terrorized the region.
Chris StewartHOST
They frequently used threats of violence to seize property deeds from residents.
Chris StewartHOST
But the bulk of his information came from the flow of memorials, both regular and secret, that enabled him to follow not only the faction-ridden succession struggles, but also the routine matters of local finances and the personal behavior and characteristics of his officials.
Chris StewartHOST
The accumulated charges leveled against the family of Xu Xuanxue during the years 1689-91 by various commoners and junior degree holders in the counties of Kunshan and Taicang, Jiangsu, serve to illustrate the general scale of the problem.
Chris StewartHOST
These charges, in most of which the accuser is named and at least one other local resident was willing to appear as a witness for the prosecution, show that the younger relatives of the Xu family tyrannized the area.
Chris StewartHOST
A common technique was to use the threat of violence to force local residents to make over the deeds of their property to members of the Xu family.
Einar TangenGUEST
I'll give you an example.
Einar TangenGUEST
A place called Kunshan, which is just outside of Shanghai.
Einar TangenGUEST
I went there to write a book about this place, someplace no one has ever heard of.
Einar TangenGUEST
But at that time, 60% of all laptops sold in the world were made in Kunshan.
Einar TangenGUEST
That's pretty extraordinary.
Einar TangenGUEST
A town you never heard of making 6% of the laptops.
BurrisPANELIST
I'm excited to be back after spending the week in China.
BurrisPANELIST
I had the opportunity to go to our sister city in Kunshan, China, where I got to visit various industries with our young entrepreneurs for our sister city.
BurrisPANELIST
So many thanks to the, um, coordinators of that trip.
BurrisPANELIST
Got to visit some electric vehicle manufacturers, small business incubators, the local hospitals, and of course, Duke University.
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BurrisPANELIST
And so it's important that as we continue to grow and build out, that we take in consideration what damage we've done to Earth already and what it's gonna look like moving forward.
BurrisPANELIST
So thank you all for your time, but I wanted to just take about the environmental, like, we want to have Earth for a very long time.
BurrisPANELIST
And I'll say this, like, even though some people promote growth, I came back from China, which is a highly dense city, in Kunshan.
BurrisPANELIST
I didn't see the sunshine for six days, well, five days 'cause of smog.