[Part 6 Confucian State] China Governance History

Zhao neatly sums up the history in his New Theory of Chinese History

This is a brilliant, major book. It is ambitious in every sense. Zhao attempts to rewrite both macro-sociological theory and Chinese historical development, and he gives a new answer to the old question of why Europe ultimately developed and China did not. He largely achieves these ambitious goals through an extraordinary combination of erudition and an…