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
 
“Riveting.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal
 
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023
 
Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning wit...