Yasheng Huang: China's Examination System and its impact on Politics, Economy, Innovation — Manifold #45

 

Yasheng 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 Introduction 

1:11 From Beijing to Harvard in the 1980s 

15:29 Civil service exams and Huang's new book, "The Rise and Fall of the EAST" 

37:14 Two goals: Developing human capital and indoctrination 

48:33 Impact of the exam system 

57:04 China's innovation peak and decline 

1:12:23 Collaboration and relationship with the West 

1:21:31 How will the U.S.-China relationship evolve? 

Audio-only version, and transcript: 

https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/yasheng-huang-chinas-examination-system-and-its-impact-on-politics-economy-innovation-45

Yasheng Huang at MIT 

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/yasheng-huang 

Web site: 

http://www.yashenghuang.com/