{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Manifold","title":"Yasheng Huang: China's Examination System and its impact on Politics, Economy, Innovation — #45","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4dba43de\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5518,"description":"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.\nSteve and Yasheng discuss:\n0:00 Introduction\n1:11 From Beijing to Harvard in the 1980s\n15:29 Civil service exams and Huang's new book, \"The Rise and Fall of the EAST\"\n37:14 Two goals: Developing human capital and indoctrination\n48:33 Impact of the exam system\n57:04 China's innovation peak and decline\n1:12:23 Collaboration and relationship with the West\n1:21:31 How will the U.S.-China relationship evolve?\nYasheng Huang at MIT\nhttps://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/yasheng-huang\nWeb site:\nhttp://www.yashenghuang.com/\nMusic used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.\n--\nSteve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3dN5jXpdPU-2tksLGunno-_3QSF26xY_bpkov6O7drs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3Njg3LzE2NDI3/MjI3MjUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}