★★★☆☆
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline by Yasheng Huang
I admit that I started reading this book because of its clever title. “The Rise and Fall of the EAST” can be described as a grand theory the political system of People’s Republic of China, explaining it by the importance of one millennium of civil service exams in the development of the current political culture.
411 pages, Kindle Edition Published August 29, 2023 by Yale University Press ISBN 9780300274912 (ISBN10: 0300274912) ASIN B0CF29PJLK Language English
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