20  minutes ago  -  Get here : https://kimchicrooos.blogspot.com/?yers=0300266367 | DOWNLOAD/PDF  The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline | The long history of China&#8217s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance &nbsp Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST&#8212exams, autocracy, stability, and technology&#8212from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty&#8217s introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE&#8212and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)&#8212Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity. &nbsp Yasheng Huang shows how China transitioned from dynamism to extreme stagnation after the Keju was instituted. China&#8217s most prosperous periods, such as during the Tang dynasty (618&#8211907) and under the reformist CCP, occurred when its emphasis on scale (the size of bureaucracy) was balanced

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