is a text from charles wanting to know why the chinese president triedo emulate durpasshe toll at terrienystem of [indiscernible] guest: the party came to power in 1949 in a very vital way. it haslways been brutal to i own people. in the past 40 years there's been economic development. and there have been more liberalization. but then xi jinping came to power and they felt that there was too much liberalization. if we were allowed to access the internet and have more freedom maybe they would be ouof control. maybe they do not want the communist party anymore. and that feels very threatening. that is like the president there xi started this repression and over time became more and more to totally in. -- two toilet terrien -- totalitarian. becausthey are very scared of losing control over the country. and with economic development the government has the rise of chinese nation. then, that kd of -- repression has been exported into other countries. and that is what -- how, we are, what, the situation right now is where more repression is in the country and the government tries to export that

group of people and asking themselves of whthey have such illegal terrien society -- society. yet we are still fighting for this. and we are meant to be the kind of nation leading the way for the rest of the world. that paradox came to give birth to a huge literature. and this introspection among philosophers and politicians and anthropologists are asking themselves why is it that history -- what was the -- route of history. how did it actually happen? because it is contradicted religious versions of history, it can drape -- contradicted the united states origin stories. the way they square the circle is to say that primitive societies were patriarchal and modern societies had it in their wisdom a trans is him -- transition into patriarchy. indigenous societies in that thinking about the world became seeing the past as somehow blackwood. that happened all over the world there were matrimonial societies in asia and a vast belt of africa and across the americas. that really has cast a long shadow of the way we think about patriarchy now. the way that it has been equated sometime