A review by haraldg
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

3.0

I admit that I started reading this book because of its clever title.
"The Rise and Fall of the EAST" can be described as a grand theory the political system of People's Republic of China, explaining it by the importance of one millennium of civil service exams in the development of the current political culture.