The Rise and Fall of the Chinese State

The East here is an acronym for examination, autocracy, stability, and technology. So this coming into a illustrious lineage of books that take a broad sweep across a wide domain of issues. How did you come to this as being the vehicle to investigate this broad historic sweep about the Chinese state? That's right. So I started with E, the examination. And there was a long trail of academic papers and books on the civil service examination system in China. The more recent work is much more data driven than the previous work on thecivil service examination system.