{"id":4964,"date":"2021-03-12T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/chinas-corrupt-meritocracy-with-yuen-yuen-ang\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:26:16","slug":"chinas-corrupt-meritocracy-with-yuen-yuen-ang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/chinas-corrupt-meritocracy-with-yuen-yuen-ang\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#39;s Corrupt Meritocracy, with Yuen Yuen Ang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FXPUdMduNw?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>Portrayals of China\u2019s political economy tend to be divided, with one side depicting it as a Confucian-style meritocracy, and the other arguing that the regime is a kleptocracy. In fact, neither view is correct: in the Chinese officialdom, competence and corruption can go hand in hand. Drawing on her new book, China\u2019s Gilded Age (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Ang underscores that paradoxes define China\u2019s political economy. Chinese growth is speedy yet risky and imbalanced. Corrupt officials worship the pursuit of prosperity. China\u2019s regime is authoritarian yet its regions are decentralized and highly competitive. Understanding China requires that we grasp these seeming paradoxes, which will persist well into the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Yuen Yuen Ang is the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for \u201cimpactful empirical, theoretical and\/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.\u201d She is also named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for \u201chigh-caliber scholarship [on] the most pressing issues of our times.\u201d Her first, award-winning book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), is acclaimed as \u201cgame changing\u201d and \u201cfield shifting.\u201d The sequel to this book, China\u2019s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom &#038; Vast Corruption, is released in 2020. She writes for a broad audience in Foreign Affairs and Project Syndicate. Ang is a graduate of Colorado College and Stanford University, and a Public Intellectual Fellow at the National Committee of US-China Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7FXPUdMduNw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Portrayals of China\u2019s political economy tend to be divided, with one side depicting it as a Confucian-style meritocracy, and the other arguing that the regime is a kleptocracy. In fact, neither view is correct: in the Chinese officialdom, competence and corruption can go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}