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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Yasheng Huang

Culture, humanities & social science

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 Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and professor of global economics and management

Yale University Press · 2023

According to Huang, the world is seeing a repeat of Chinese history during which restrictions on economic and political freedom created economic stagnation. The bottom line: "Without academic collaboration, without business collaboration, without technological collaborations, the pace of Chinese technological progress is going to slow down dramatically."

From Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.