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

The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023

Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST--exams, autocracy, stability, and technology--from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300266367
• ISBN13: 9780300266368
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"