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China In ContextRebooting China's Economy — Lessons from the 2008 CrisisIn the face of Donald Trump's tariffs, will China's plans to boost its domestic consumer economy succeed — or could the government in Beijing be tempted to introduce massive stimulus measures, as it did after the financial crisis in 2008? In this episode of China in Context, leading scholar Yasheng Huang, professor of global economics and management at MIT's Sloan School of Management, explains why China's political resilience in a trade war may be greater than its economic resilience — and argues that, despite the current obsession with high technology, reforms of land ownership and the rights of rural citizens and migrant labo...2025-05-0836 min
ResearchPodEnduring influence of EAST on Chinese society: A deep diveThe directions of Chinese politics and economics echo restrictive practices that may hinder China’s technological and economic competitiveness.Professor Yasheng Huang’s The Rise and Fall of the EAST has shaken perspectives outside academia. He focuses on how exams, autocracy, stability, and technology (EAST) have historically shaped China’s governance, impacting both prosperity and creativity.Read more in Research FeaturesRead the book: yalebooks.co.uk/9780300274912/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east2025-03-1912 minResearchPodEnduring influence of EAST on Chinese society: A deep diveThe directions of Chinese politics and economics echo restrictive practices that may hinder China’s technological and economic competitiveness.Professor Yasheng Huang’s The Rise and Fall of the EAST has shaken perspectives outside academia. He focuses on how exams, autocracy, stability, and technology (EAST) have historically shaped China’s governance, impacting both prosperity and creativity.Read more in Research FeaturesRead the book: yalebooks.co.uk/9780300274912/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east2025-03-1912 min
The Podcast Browser53 | What About India? Part II: Success and Stagnation In the World’s Largest Democracy ~ Bishnupriya Gupta Podcast: On Humans (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: 53 | What About India? Part II: Success and Stagnation In the World’s Largest Democracy ~ Bishnupriya GuptaPub date: 2025-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIndia’s history isn’t just the story of one nation—it’s the story of one-sixth of humanity. It’s also a lens for understanding how colonialism, democracy, and globalization shaped the modern world. This mini-series offers a human-centred perspective on that remarkable story, focusing on how politics and tr...2025-03-0430 minThe Podcast Browser52 | What About India? Part I: Mughals, British, and the Causes of Poverty ~ Bishnupriya Gupta Podcast: On Humans (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: 52 | What About India? Part I: Mughals, British, and the Causes of Poverty ~ Bishnupriya GuptaPub date: 2025-02-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFollowing the success of last year’s What About China -trilogy, I’m delighted to introduce a two-part series on the economic history of India. This series examines the origins of modern India by focusing on politics, poverty, and the experience of ordinary Indians from 1600 till today.The first episode covers the...2025-03-031h 07
On HumansWhat About India? Part II: Success and Stagnation In the World’s Largest Democracy ~ Bishnupriya GuptaIndia’s history isn’t just the story of one nation—it’s the story of one-sixth of humanity. It’s also a lens for understanding how colonialism, democracy, and globalization shaped the modern world. This mini-series offers a human-centred perspective on that remarkable story, focusing on how politics and trade impacted the lives of ordinary Indians. In Part 1, we explored the decline of the Mughals and the long stretch of British rule. In Part 2, we turn to India's independent journey as the world’s largest democracy. To guide us through this complex history, I’m j...2025-02-2430 minOn HumansWhat About India? Part I: Mughals, British, and the Causes of Poverty ~ Bishnupriya GuptaFollowing the success of last year’s What About China -trilogy, I’m delighted to introduce a two-part series on the economic history of India. This series examines the origins of modern India by focusing on politics, poverty, and the experience of ordinary Indians from 1600 till today.The first episode covers the decline of the Mughals and the hugely controversial rule of the British East India Company and, later, the British Crown.One thing is clear: Most Indians lived in poverty when the British left. So, how much of Indian poverty was due to British policies...2025-02-141h 07
Finneran's WakeKeju: The Ancient Test of China’s Strength | Yasheng HuangYasheng Huang is a professor at MIT and the author of many books, including his most recent work, “The Rise and Fall of the EAST”. I reached out to Professor Huang because, after reading his book, I wanted to learn more about Chinese history. In this episode, Yasheng and I discuss: Imperial China v. The Roman Empire; Keju; The origin of Civil Service Exams; Purges: Hard and Soft; Meritocracy v Aristocracy; Enlightenment Thinkers; The American Founding; Stalin and Mao; Xi Jinping; Autocratic “Stickiness”; Liberal Democracy...2025-02-061h 50
The New East Asian Studies Podcasts in the Age of AIEAST: Stability, Diversity, and China's FutureDive deep into the complex relationship between China's history, governance, and economic strategies in this podcast series. Explore Yasheng Huang’s insights from The Rise and Fall of the East and join expert discussions on the historical roots of China's authoritarianism, the pivotal 1980s liberalization period, and the challenges of Xi Jinping's leadership. Unpack how the legacy of the imperial examination system influences modern policies and what it means for innovation, reform, and potential regime change. This podcast bridges past and present, offering invaluable perspectives for understanding China's future trajectory.
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Political reform
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Harri Tiido taustajutudHarri Tiido taustajutud. Hiina edu tagamaadestVikerraadio saatesarjas "Harri Tiido taustajutud" on seekord Yasheng Huangi abil vaatluse all Hiina tsiviilteenistuse eksam. Yasheng Huang ütleb, et Hiina on korduvalt üllatanud ja võib seda uuesti teha, küsimus on vaid selles, et millega, märgib Tiido.2025-01-0207 minOn HumansLive from London | Yasheng Huang on the Origins of Modern ChinaThis was fun! Last Wednesday saw the first-ever live recording of On Humans. The event was held at the London Business School, courtesy of the LBS's China Club. My guest was MIT Professor Yasheng Huang, familiar to regular listeners from the China trilogy published earlier this fall. In this new episode, we keep tackling the origins of modern China. This time, we draw insights from Huang's two upcoming books: Revisiting the Needham Question and Statism With Chinese Characteristics. The conversation is structured around five themes: 1) the "Needham Question"; 2) Keju exams; 3) Scale; 4) Scope; and 5) The Eighties. Ex...2024-12-231h 25
The Podcast BrowserImperial Legacy Part 2: 1949 to Xi's Death Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Imperial Legacy Part 2: 1949 to Xi's DeathPub date: 2024-10-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWelcome back to part two of our interview with Yasheng Huang 黄亚生, the author of The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline.We cover a lot of ground in this two-hour installment. During the first hour, we discuss…
The aspects of imperial China’s gov...2024-11-242h 04The Podcast BrowserAutocracy, Exams and Stagnation: Imperial China's Modern Legacy Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Autocracy, Exams and Stagnation: Imperial China's Modern LegacyPub date: 2024-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationYasheng Huang 黄亚生 is the author of one of the decade’s greatest books about China — The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. It’s a rich book, a product of a career of reflections, with each page delivering something novel and provocative.In this fi...2024-11-231h 15
Alles Geschichte - Der History-PodcastDER WESTEN (2/3) - Wie uns die anderen sehenWas "ungefähr" der Westen sein soll, ist wenig umstritten. Wer heute in "westlichen Gesellschaften" lebt, hat meist den diffusen Eindruck, irgendwie einer der vielen gängigen Normen zu entsprechen. Genaueres regelt jeder für sich selbst. Doch schon dieser individualistische Ansatz ist typisch für den Westen, beschreibt Jean-Marie Magro in seiner dreiteiligen Überlegung "Der Westen". Und "normal" finden das andere Gesellschaften, die nicht zum Westen gehören, nicht. Vor allem die politische Kultur des Westens reizt in anderen Teilen der Welt zu entschiedenem Widerspruch.
Credits Autor: Jean-Marie Magro Regie: Christiane Klenz E...2024-11-1524 min
Alles Geschichte - Der History-PodcastDER WESTEN (1/3) - Wer sind wir eigentlich?Was "ungefähr" der Westen sein soll, ist wenig umstritten. Wer heute in "westlichen Gesellschaften" lebt, hat meist den diffusen Eindruck, irgendwie einer der vielen gängigen Normen zu entsprechen. Genaueres regelt jeder für sich selbst. Doch schon dieser individualistische Ansatz ist typisch für den Westen, beschreibt Jean-Marie Magro in seiner dreiteiligen Überlegung "Der Westen". Und "normal" finden das andere Gesellschaften, die nicht zum Westen gehören, nicht. Vor allem die politische Kultur des Westens reizt in anderen Teilen der Welt zu entschiedenem Widerspruch. Korrigierte Version vom 28.11.2024Credits Autor: Jean-Marie Magro Regie...2024-11-1525 min
Alles Geschichte - Der History-PodcastDER WESTEN (1/3) - Wer sind wir eigentlich?Was "ungefähr" der Westen sein soll, ist wenig umstritten. Wer heute in "westlichen Gesellschaften" lebt, hat meist den diffusen Eindruck, irgendwie einer der vielen gängigen Normen zu entsprechen. Genaueres regelt jeder für sich selbst. Doch schon dieser individualistische Ansatz ist typisch für den Westen, beschreibt Jean-Marie Magro in seiner dreiteiligen Überlegung "Der Westen". Und "normal" finden das andere Gesellschaften, die nicht zum Westen gehören, nicht. Vor allem die politische Kultur des Westens reizt in anderen Teilen der Welt zu entschiedenem Widerspruch.
Credits Autor: Jean-Marie Magro Regie: Christiane Klenz E...2024-11-1525 min
Talks from the Hoover InstitutionCritical Issues In The US-China Science And Technology RelationshipThe Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World held Critical Issues in the US-China Science and Technology Relationship on Thursday, November 7th, 2024 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PT at the Annenberg Conference Room, George P. Shultz Building.
Both the United States and the People’s Republic of China see sustaining leadership in science and technology (S+T) as foundational to national and economic security. Policymakers on both sides of the Pacific have taken action to promote indigenous innovation, and to protect S+T ecosystems from misappropriation of research and malign technology transfer. In the US, some of t...2024-11-071h 31
ChinaTalkImperial Legacy Part 2: 1949 to Xi's DeathWelcome back to part two of our interview with Yasheng Huang 黄亚生, the author of The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline.We cover a lot of ground in this two-hour installment. During the first hour, we discuss…
The aspects of imperial China’s governance Mao chose to embrace, and those he chose to abandon,
The factors enabling Mao’s radical policies compared to imperial rulers,
Why China was able to grow so much faster than India, despite the setbacks of the Cultu...2024-10-022h 04ChinaTalkImperial Legacy Part 2: 1949 to Xi's DeathWelcome back to part two of our interview with Yasheng Huang 黄亚生, the author of The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline.We cover a lot of ground in this two-hour installment. During the first hour, we discuss…
The aspects of imperial China’s governance Mao chose to embrace, and those he chose to abandon,
The factors enabling Mao’s radical policies compared to imperial rulers,
Why China was able to grow so much faster than India, despite the setbacks of the Cultu...2024-10-022h 04
ChinaTalkAutocracy, Exams and Stagnation: Imperial China's Modern LegacyYasheng Huang 黄亚生 is the author of one of the decade’s greatest books about China — The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. It’s a rich book, a product of a career of reflections, with each page delivering something novel and provocative.In this first half of our two-part interview, we discuss…
How the imperial examination system (known as keju) shaped Chinese governance, culture, and society,
Why autocratic Chinese dynasties benefitted from a meritocratic bureaucracy,
Statistical methods for analyzing social mobilit...2024-09-231h 15ChinaTalkAutocracy, Exams and Stagnation: Imperial China's Modern LegacyYasheng Huang 黄亚生 is the author of one of the decade’s greatest books about China — The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. It’s a rich book, a product of a career of reflections, with each page delivering something novel and provocative.In this first half of our two-part interview, we discuss…
How the imperial examination system (known as keju) shaped Chinese governance, culture, and society,
Why autocratic Chinese dynasties benefitted from a meritocratic bureaucracy,
Statistical methods for analyzing social mobilit...2024-09-231h 15On HumansWhat About China? Part III: A Brief History of China’s Future ~ Yasheng HuangWhere is China today? Will its rise continue to benefit the vast majority of its population? Or is Xi Jinping's increasingly repressive government committing one of the biggest blunders of modern history? This is the final episode in the China-trilogy, the product of hours of conversations I've had with ChinaTalk's Jordan Schneider and MIT professor Yasheng Huang. In part 1, we discussed the deep currents of Chinese history, shaping the country's destiny from its early technological lead to its more recent decline and stagnation. In part 2, we discussed China during and after Mao, trying our best...2024-09-2130 minOn HumansWhat About China? Part II: Explaining the Chinese Miracle ~ Yasheng HuangChina's rise has shook the world. It has changed the lives of over a billion people in China. It has flooded humanity with cheap goods, from single-use toys to high-tech solar panels. And it has changed the logic of war and peace in the 21st Century.But how to explain China's dramatic rise? Was it due to the wisdom of China's leaders after Mao? Or was it all about foreign investors searching for cheap labor? Both and neither, argues MIT professor Yasheng Huang. Yes, the Chinese leaders learned from the mistakes of Mao. And yes, f...2024-09-191h 05
The US-China PodcastThe Future of the U.S.-China Science and Technology AgreementThe U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement (STA), signed in 1979, was the first major bilateral agreement between the United States and China. Since then, it has been renewed multiple times and has facilitated China’s integration into the global economy. However, experts agree that the agreement no longer reflects China’s expanded scientific and technological (S&T) capacity, nor does it address U.S. concerns about China’s S&T practices and policies. After two six month extensions approved by President, the STA expired on August 27th, 2024. In an interview conducted on August 21, 2024, Scott Moore speaks wi...2024-09-0629 min
Mind MattersProfessor Yasheng Huang - China’s politics and economyIn this week's episode, we will be discussing China’s politics and economy. Professor Yasheng Huang from MIT Sloan School of Management will give an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of China’s economic and political reforms after 1978, based on his bo...2024-09-0528 minOn HumansWhat About China? Part I: The Deep Currents of Chinese History ~ Yasheng HuangThe West has ruled history — at least the way history has been written. This is a shame. To tell the story of humans, we must tell the story of us all.So what about the rest? What themes and quirks does their history hide? And what forces, if anything, prevented them of matching Europe’s rise? I aim to cover these topics for several countries and cultures over the next year. But I wanted to start with China. To do so, I’ve teamed up with Jordan Schneider, the host of ChinaTalk.Our guest i...2024-09-021h 12
FT Tech TonicChina's race to tech supremacy: New frontiersChina is pushing the frontiers of scientific research, launching missions to the Moon and exploring the remotest places on Earth. It’s part of China’s grand plan to be the world leader in science and technology. But why are science and tech so important to Beijing, and is China’s rise as the next tech superpower inevitable? James Kynge concludes this season of Tech Tonic with Eleanor Olcott, the FT’s China tech correspondent, Matthew Funaiole from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Matt Sheehan from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Yasheng Huang, professor at the MIT S...2024-06-1830 min
Uncanny Valley | WIREDWe Demystify the Internet's AcronymsDo you know what TCP/IP means? (Hint: you’re using it right now.) What about CDMA? Or GPT? While the concepts and the execution of these technologies are clear to most of us who have been on the internet nearly our whole lives, the acronyms we use to define them are often inscrutable. On this week’s episode, we welcome WIRED’s AI reporter Will Knight onto the show. Along with our hosts Michael Calore and Lauren Goode, the trio takes turns quizzing each other on what exactly these acronyms stand for. Michael is asked to unpack various terms...2024-04-2546 min
NPR's Book of the Day'The Rise and Fall of the EAST' chronicles China's economic historyYasheng Huang, a professor of global economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, names four major contributors to China's economy in his new book, The Rise and Fall of the EAST: exams, autocracy, stability and technology. Huang writes that those have been the driving factors of Chinese development dating back to the Sui dynasty, and particularly during the economic boom of the past half-century. But he tells Here & Now's Scott Tong that a declining property sector, a lack of investment in people and today's political leadership is ringing alarms for the country's future. To listen to Book of...2024-03-0610 min
China Books PodcastEp. 5: China's Economic Challenges, ExplainedThe sizzle has come off of China's decades of economic growth, as the country contends with deflation, slumping consumer confidence, plummeting foreign investment, a cratered urban property sector, high local government debt, overcapacity in manufacturing, and a private sector cowed by government crackdowns, as well as a shrinking workforce and an aging population.For all that, China is still the world's second largest economy, the largest trading partner of most of the world's countries, and one of the world's biggest bilateral lenders. And China listed its economic growth rate in 2023 as a respectable 5.2 percent, causing more than...2024-02-061h 09
The CGAI Podcast NetworkThe Global Exchange: Asia After the Taiwanese ElectionOn this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson is joined by John Gruetzner, Vina Nadjibulla, Stephen Nagy, and Hugh Stephens to discuss the Taiwanese election and its implications for Asia.
Participants' bios
- John Gruetzner worked in the private sector living in China and Asia for most of his career. He is also the co-founder of Intercedent
- Vina Nadjibulla is Vice-President, Research & Strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia
- Stephen Nagy is a senior associate professor at the International...2024-02-0559 min
Scholars Unravel Middle EastS1E2: If Japan Could Catch Up With the West, Why Couldn’t Countries of the Middle East?Is democracy the best form of government for the economic progress of countries in the Middle East? If your answer is yes, then how do you explain Turkiye? But if your answer is no, then how do you explain the UAE? And if not democracy, then what form of government would you suggest?
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Scholars Unravel Middle EastS1E1: Why Did Small European Kingdoms, and Not the Huge Empires of Asia, Conquer the World?And when did Middle Easterners begin to all fall behind Europeans? And what does it even mean to fall behind?
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My guest for this episode is Dr. Philip T. Hoffman. He is a professor of Business Economics and History at the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute o...2024-01-2555 min
Get Best Full Audiobooks in History, WorldThe 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 PhdPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710718to listen full audiobooks.
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Title: The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Author: Yasheng Huang Phd
Narrator: Rebecca Lam
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Release date: December 19, 2023
Genres: Asia
Publisher's Summary:
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 Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used b...2023-12-195h 44
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Title: The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Author: Yasheng Huang Phd
Narrator: Rebecca Lam
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Release date: December 19, 2023
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
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 Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the person...2023-12-195h 44
A Conversation with PaulChina Under Xi Jinping - MIT Prof. Yasheng HuangSend us a Text Message.Yasheng is the author of The Rise and Fall of the East, How Exams, Autocracy, Stability and Technology brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. He is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket.This is how traders and investors excel.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the Show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or ge...2023-10-271h 04
ManifoldYasheng Huang: China's Examination System and its impact on Politics, Economy, Innovation — #45Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline.Steve and Yasheng discuss: 0:00 Introduction1:11 From Beijing to Harvard in the 1980s15:29 Civil service exams and Huang's new book, "The Rise and Fall of the EAST"37:14 Two goals: Developing human capital and indoctrination48:33 Impact of the exam system57:04 China's innovation peak and decline2023-10-051h 31
New Books in East Asian StudiesThe Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng HuangExams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these things brought China success and why they may lead to its decline. Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Buchare...2023-10-0245 min
New Books in Chinese StudiesThe Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng HuangExams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these things brought China success and why they may lead to its decline. Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Buchare...2023-10-0244 min
New Books in Political ScienceThe Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng HuangExams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these things brought China success and why they may lead to its decline. Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Buchare...2023-10-0245 min
New Books in World AffairsThe Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng HuangExams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these things brought China success and why they may lead to its decline. Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Buchare...2023-10-0245 min
New Books in Big IdeasThe Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng HuangExams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these things brought China success and why they may lead to its decline. Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Buchare...2023-10-0244 min
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-JonesThe Future of the EAST: A Discussion with Yasheng HuangExams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these things brought China success and why they may lead to its decline. Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Buchare...2023-10-0245 min
The Economic and Political History PodcastChina: Rise and Fall | Yasheng Huang with Javier MejiaInterview with Yasheng Huang, author of 'The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline'
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 Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity...2023-10-011h 01
History Behind News ProgramS3E37: China's Economic History - Why China's Innovation Fell Behind Europe'sDid you know, that the compass, gunpowder, paper, and the printing press, all history-changing technologies, were invented in China? Yet, the realization of their economic values happened in Europe, not in China. This is the story of the steep price that imperial China paid for the sake of stability and scale, a story that Communist China seems to be repeating now.
Dr. Yasheng Huang of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, HbN's guest for this subject, analyzes China's colossal economic successes and gigantic failures ("gigantic" is his word) in the context of innovation, freedom of ideas, and di...2023-09-291h 18
The China ProjectThe Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT’s Yasheng Huang on his new bookThis week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How...2023-08-3100 min
Sinica PodcastThe Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new bookThis 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.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2023-08-312h 07
The Armen Show411: Yasheng Huang | China’s National Transition In “The Rise And Fall Of The East”
The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance 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 Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity. Yasheng Huan...2023-08-3049 min
ROCKING OUR PRIORSThe Rise and Fall of the East, Professor Yasheng HuangA conversation with MIT Professor Yasheng Huang
Why is the CCP so resilient?
How did the keju imperial examinations shape Chinese autocracy and culture?
What does South Korea tell us about growth, democratisation and culture?
Discussing his new book: https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east/?k=97803002663682023-08-291h 00
Sinica Early AccessThe Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new bookThis 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!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2023-08-292h 07
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...2023-08-272h 04Sinica PodcastThe CFR Taiwan task force report: advice and dissent, with Maggie Lewis and Paul HeerThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Margaret (Maggie) Lewis, professor of law at Seton Hall University and veteran Taiwan observer, and Paul Heer, former national intelligence officer for East Asia in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) under the Obama administration. Both were members of the Council on Foreign Relations’s task force on U.S.-Taiwan policy, which produced a report titled “U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era: Responding to a More Assertive China.” Both also wrote dissents, included in the report, about some of its findings and recommendations. They discuss what t...2023-07-2756 min
LSE PodcastsLSE: The Ballpark | The Rise and Fall of the EAST with Professor Yasheng HuangIn March 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management about his new book, The Rise and Fall of the EAST, which will be published by Yale University Press in August 2023. They also discussed Chinese technological development over the last three decades, and the challenges China currently faces in developing and maintaining its talent and human capital to support innovation.
This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson, Mohid Malik, and Anderson Tan.
Contributors: Professor Yasheng Huang (MIT), Chri...2023-06-0240 min
The BallparkLSE: The Ballpark | The Rise and Fall of the EAST with Professor Yasheng HuangContributor(s): Mohid Rehman Malik, Chris Gilson, Professor Yasheng Huang | In March 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management about his new book, The Rise and Fall of the EAST, which will be published by Yale University Press in August 2023. They also discussed Chinese technological development over the last three decades, and the challenges China currently faces in developing and maintaining its talent and human capital to support innovation.
This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson, Mohi...2023-06-0240 min
LSE: The BallparkLSE: The Ballpark | The Rise and Fall of the EAST with Professor Yasheng HuangContributor(s): Mohid Rehman Malik, Chris Gilson, Professor Yasheng Huang | In March 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management about his new book, The Rise and Fall of the EAST, which will be published by Yale University Press in August 2023. They also discussed Chinese technological development over the last three decades, and the challenges China currently faces in developing and maintaining its talent and human capital to support innovation.
This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson, Mohi...2023-06-0240 min
The Meridian100 PodcastChina’s perilous helmsmanUntil Xi Jingping, no Chinese leader since Mao had subordinated economic development to Communist Party political domination, says Yasheng Huang. This has been developing since the early in Xi’s leadership and manifests in mounting hostility to the private sector and tightening CCP controls over every significant part of the economy. China is already paying a price in dramatically slowing domestic growth and, Yasheng argues, gradual deterioration of political and social stability will follow.
Yasheng Huang is Professor of Global Economic and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a leading authority on China’s poli...2023-05-2600 min
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoThe Rise and Fall of the EASTContributor(s): Professor Yasheng Huang | Drawing on new data, he will explore the policy implications of this historical pattern for China at a time of mounting strategic and economic rivalry with the United States.2023-03-271h 32
The ValmyYasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State Podcast: Conversations with Tyler Episode: Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese StateRelease date: 2023-03-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationYasheng Huang has written two of Tyler’s favorite books on China: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, which contrasts an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China, and The Rise and Fall of the EAST, which argues that Keju—China’s civil service exam system—played a key role in the growth and expanding power of the Chinese state. Yasheng joined Tyl...2023-03-1554 min
Conversations with TylerYasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese StateYasheng Huang has written two of Tyler’s favorite books on China: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, which contrasts an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China, and The Rise and Fall of the EAST, which argues that Keju—China’s civil service exam system—played a key role in the growth and expanding power of the Chinese state. Yasheng joined Tyler to discuss China’s lackluster technological innovation, why declining foreign investment is more of a concern than a declining population, why Chinese literacy stagnated in the 19th century, how he believes the imperial exam system deprived C...2023-03-0854 min
The Real StoryWhat will China’s declining population mean for the world?Last year China's population fell for the first time in 60 years with the national birth rate hitting a record low.
China's birth rate has in fact been declining for years but an older population will pose a real challenge for China economically, politically and strategically. So, what will the consequences be for China and the rest of the world if this vast economy - the second largest in the world – of a waning workforce and an ageing population?
The ruling Communist Party is introducing a range of policies to try to encourage couples to have more babies. But it wa...2023-03-0349 min
Intelligence SquaredThe Sunday Debate: Will protests rock China?Given the disruptive events unfolding in China in recent weeks, what does the future holds for Xi Jinping and the country? Some say that this is a pivotal moment for Xi’s strongman rule, especially given that the Chinese economy is also suffering. And what do China’s political and economic challenges mean for the rest of the world? To answer these questions we’re joined by Yasheng Huang professor at MIT and author of Capitalism with Chinese characteristics and Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute at Kings College London and author of Xi: A study in power...2022-12-181h 00
In Pursuit of DevelopmentThe power of the Chinese state: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology — Yasheng HuangEver wondered why the state in China is so powerful? Yasheng argues that Keju — the Imperial civil service examination — has historically maximized a specific type of knowledge in the minds of the population such as memorization. It also reduced the scope of, or eliminated, alternative ideas. Keju made the state all powerful. The state was able to monopolize the very best of human capital. And in doing so, the state deprived society access to talent and pre-empted organized religion, commerce, and intelligentsia. While it is China’s blessing, Keju is also a curse as it decimated society.Yasheng Hu...2022-12-0755 min
PekingologyThe Rise and Fall of the EASTIn this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Yasheng Huang, the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Faculty Director of Action Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss his forthcoming book, The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability and Technology in Chinese History and Today.2022-12-011h 11
JFK Library ForumsUS Foreign Policy and ChinaLucy Hornby, a fellow at the Nieman Center for Journalism and former Beijing deputy bureau chief for the Financial Times, and Yasheng Huang, MIT professor of international management, discuss US foreign policy challenges and opportunities with Anthony Saich, Harvard professor of international affairs and director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. This program is co-presented with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. For more info, visit jfklibrary.org/forums.2020-06-021h 00
Two Think MinimumYasheng Huang on Contact Tracing and Tech Adoption in America and AsiaYasheng Huang is the Epic Foundation professor of international management and faculty director of action learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Harvard Business School. Yasheng is currently involved in a number of research projects which sound fascinating in four broad areas. A book project titled the Nature of the Chinese State. Second, creating a complete database on historical technological inventions in China and collaboration with researchers at Tsinghua University. Also a project on food safety in China in systematic risk management approach and research on venture...2020-05-1222 min
FernostwärtsFOW050 – Nationalism, Censorship and Media in China (with Kiki Zhao) [EN]
A Birthday Letter to the People’s Republic (ChinaFile) by Yangyang Cheng
When Truth Is Hard to Love (Chinese Storytellers) by Kiki Zhao
China’s Government Wants You to Think All Mainlanders View Hong Kong the Same Way. They Don’t. (ChinaFile) by Kiki Zhao
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression (American Political Science Review) by Jennifer Pan et al
Jessica Chen Weiss
Mainland Chinese Sneak Into Hong Kong’s Protests—to Support the Cause (WSJ) by Wenxin Fan
Xibai Xu on Twitter
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
YouTube channel “Arrow Factory”...2019-12-0453 min
China StudiesDiagnosing China's State-led Capitalism – Yasheng HuangAs Chinese economic growth slows to its lowest rate in 30 years, there is rising concern (including among some Chinese scholars and officials) about the long-term viability of China's distinctive form of state-led capitalism, sometimes characterized in terms of a "China Model". Nevertheless, the Chinese government still appears committed to the approach marked by heavy state intervention in the economy that has driven China's growth since the 1990s, and especially since the global financial crisis of 2008 and then under President Xi Jinping. In this episode, Neysun Mahboubi discusses China's state-led capitalism, and the prospects for reform, with one of the fo...2019-04-121h 47
Open to Debate#163 - Unresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With ChinaWith Ian Bremmer, Michèle Flournoy, Yasheng Huang, Parag Khanna, and Susan ThorntonPresident Xi Jinping has made it clear: When it comes to big data, advanced weaponry, and other innovations in tech and AI, China has plans to surpass the United States as the world’s next techonomic superpower. But between the trade war with the U.S., the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, and an array of domestic challenges, are China’s goals outpacing its capacity? Or is China building and investing in strategic partnerships that will push the country toward global dominance? ...2019-03-0853 min
Intelligence Squared U.S. DebatesUnresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With ChinaWith Ian Bremmer, Michèle Flournoy, Yasheng Huang, Parag Khanna, and Susan ThorntonPresident Xi Jinping has made it clear: When it comes to big data, advanced weaponry, and other innovations in tech and AI, China has plans to surpass the United States as the world’s next techonomic superpower. But between the trade war with the U.S., the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, and an array of domestic challenges, are China’s goals outpacing its capacity? Or is China building and investing in strategic partnerships that will push the country toward global dominance?Learn more...2019-03-0853 min
Sinica PodcastTalking trade and tech with Yasheng HuangThis week, it’s a crossover show! Zara and Hans from the terrific 996 Podcast with GGV Capital join Kaiser at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a live recording with Yasheng Huang, professor of economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Yasheng — never known for his delicate pulling of punches — talks about trade, technology policy, and Chinese and Indian entrepreneurship. This episode was recorded on April 7, 2018.
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Evolving for the Next BillionYasheng Huang of MIT on the Future of U.S.-China Trade RelationsIn the first joint live session of GGV Capital’s 996 Podcast and the Sinica Podcast, we interviewed Yasheng Huang, a renowned economist and professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. GGV Capital’s Hans Tung and Zara Zhang were joined by Kaiser Kuo, host of the Sinica Podcast and producer of the 996 Podcast. Huang founded and runs the China Lab and the India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in those countries improve their management skills. He is an expert source on international business, political economy, and international management. In collaboration with...2018-05-231h 09
Sinica Early AccessTalking trade and tech with Yasheng HuangThis week, it’s a crossover show! Zara and Hans from the terrific 996 Podcast with GGV Capital join Kaiser at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a live recording with Yasheng Huang, professor of economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Yasheng — never known for his delicate pulling of punches — talks about trade, technology policy, and Chinese and Indian entrepreneurship. This episode was recorded on April 7, 2018.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2018-05-211h 06
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAn Instant Analysis of China's 19th Party CongressThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present a panel discussion with exclusive insight and opinions on China’s 19th Party Congress. Moderator:Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityPanelists:Anthony Saich, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs. Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the BU Pardee School. Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Edward Wong, journalist and a fo...2017-11-151h 28
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAn Instant Analysis of China's 19th Party CongressThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present a panel discussion with exclusive insight and opinions on China’s 19th Party Congress.
Moderator:
Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University
Panelists:
Anthony Saich, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs.
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the BU Pardee School.
Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Edward Wong, journalist and a...2017-11-151h 28Sinica PodcastTrump and Xi Jinping: What lies ahead?Earlier this month, Kaiser recorded a discussion in front of a live audience at the 1990 Institute in San Francisco with three luminaries of the China-watching scene: Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan Professor of Chinese Economy and Business, John Pomfret, author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, and Andy Rothman, investment strategist at Matthews Asia. They got together to talk about how the presidency of Donald Trump will affect trade, politics, the international order, currency policies, and several other sides of the American relationship with China.
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Slice of MIT PodcastBeyond 2016: MIT's Frontiers of the FutureWhen MIT was founded in 1861, the Institute originally filled Boston’s newly developed Back Bay neighborhood. In the decades that followed, the departments and students increased, and in 1916, MIT crossed the Charles River for a new campus in Cambridge.
Since its move to Cambridge, the Institute continued to establish itself as one of the world’s top universities and its alumni and faculty have tackled society’s most pressing challenges. Earlier this year, as part of MIT’s campus centennial celebration, the Institute hosted the symposium, “Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future.” (http://mit2016.mit.edu/)
In this Slice of MIT podcast...2016-09-0720 minSlice of MITBeyond 2016: MIT's Frontiers of the FutureWhen MIT was founded in 1861, the Institute originally filled Boston’s newly developed Back Bay neighborhood. In the decades that followed, the departments and students increased, and in 1916, MIT crossed the Charles River for a new campus in Cambridge.
Since its move to Cambridge, the Institute continued to establish itself as one of the world’s top universities and its alumni and faculty have tackled society’s most pressing challenges. Earlier this year, as part of MIT’s campus centennial celebration, the Institute hosted the symposium, “Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future.” (http://mit2016.mit.edu/)
In this Slice of MIT podcast...2016-09-0720 minSinica PodcastGoogle China and the PulloutIn this inaugural episode, Kaiser, Jeremy, and Bill Bishop sit down to discuss the landscape surrounding Google’s pullout in China. They seek to answer: What exactly happened earlier this week with Google's inaccessibility? Does Yasheng Huang have the right take on their pull-out of China, or is Tania Branigan from the Guardian more on the money? What are the consequences for Google's future in Asia, and what does any of this mean to the average Chinese user? The song used in the show is an excerpt from “The Huntsman” (猎人 lièrén) from Chunqiu’s (春秋 chūnqiū; Spring and Autumn) first and epon...2010-04-0237 min