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How Does China See the World? | Kaiser Kuo

Hidden Forces

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What Is a Technocrat?

The author's dissertation was about the emergence of technocracy in post-Mao China. The idea was that we could find discernible roots of the technocratic mindset in the Imperial Civil Service examination system, he says. "My argument was basically that the reason why China was able to become the most thoroughly technocratic regime in the world"

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