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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book

Sinica Podcast · Kaiser Kuo

August 31, 20232h 7m

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Show Notes

This week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why they Might Lead to its Decline. This ambitious and thought-provoking book is bound to stir up quite a bit of controversy. It’s a long conversation — but worth the listen!

A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com.

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