{"id":2900,"date":"2023-08-29T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:52:01","slug":"411-yasheng-huang-chinas-national-transition-in-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/411-yasheng-huang-chinas-national-transition-in-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"411: Yasheng Huang | China&#8217;s National Transition In &#8220;The Rise And Fall Of The East&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2902\" style=\"width:312px;height:312px\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The long history of China\u2019s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance<br>\u00a0<br>Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST\u2014exams, autocracy, stability, and technology\u2014from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty\u2019s introduction of the civil service exam, known as\u00a0<em>Keju<\/em>, in 587 CE\u2014and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)\u2014Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity.<br>\u00a0<br>Yasheng Huang shows how China transitioned from dynamism to extreme stagnation after the\u00a0<em>Keju<\/em>\u00a0was instituted. China\u2019s most prosperous periods, such as during the Tang dynasty (618\u2013907) and under the reformist CCP, occurred when its emphasis on scale (the size of bureaucracy) was balanced with scope (diversity of ideas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"411: Yasheng Huang | China&#039;s National Transition In &quot;The Rise And Fall Of The East&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Blql8HstRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering China\u2019s remarkable success over the past half-century, Huang sees signs of danger in the political and economic reversals under Xi Jinping. The CCP has again vaulted conformity above new ideas, reverting to the\u00a0<em>Keju<\/em>\u00a0model that eventually led to technological decline. It is a lesson from China\u2019s own history, Huang argues, that Chinese leaders would be wise to take seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang-Rise-And-Fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2903\" style=\"width:274px;height:414px\" width=\"274\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang-Rise-And-Fall.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Yasheng-Huang-Rise-And-Fall-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7028\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2900-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas411yashenghuang.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas411yashenghuang.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas411yashenghuang.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas411yashenghuang.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=2900-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas411yashenghuang.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tas411yashenghuang.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long history of China\u2019s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance\u00a0Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST\u2014exams, autocracy, stability, and technology\u2014from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty\u2019s introduction of the civil service exam, known as\u00a0Keju, in 587 CE\u2014and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}