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Yet the two coexist uneasily because the party still nominally embraces Marxism-Leninism, whose emphasis on equality goes against Confucianism, which stresses hierarchy.
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Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
And Hong Fincher’s analysis sits uneasily with the findings of other specialists on Chinese feminism.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
As the camera peers over a chain-link fence, in a trademark Solondz long shot, Brandon lets down his guard and uneasily kisses Dawn.
—Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
There, two grown siblings and their families gather, somewhat uneasily, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of their elder brother, who 15 years earlier drowned while saving a local boy from the ocean.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
And Hong Fincher’s analysis sits uneasily with the findings of other specialists on Chinese feminism.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
As the camera peers over a chain-link fence, in a trademark Solondz long shot, Brandon lets down his guard and uneasily kisses Dawn.
—Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
There, two grown siblings and their families gather, somewhat uneasily, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of their elder brother, who 15 years earlier drowned while saving a local boy from the ocean.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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