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Starting around the Song, emperors solve the elite-threat problem by localizing elites and using divide-and-conquer against them.
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Elite Localization
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The Keju is the main mechanism that let emperors transform a national aristocracy into localized elites.
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The Keju was never designed to choose the best and brightest; it was designed to localize and divide elites through a quota system.
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"The up is when a new dynasty starts. And so at this time, the new dynasty is run by a very strong leader, like,..."
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"But the centralized elite can always threaten the emperor, who is dependent on the elite for their support in the military and in government,..."
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"All right. And what Professor Wang Yuhua says is the main mechanism that the emperor used in order to achieve this radical cultural shift..."
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"But it is not a meritocracy. It was never designed to be a meritocracy. I know that in school you are taught that they..."
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"Right? Beijing and Shanghai. Right? But that's not how the system works. There is a quota system in place. There's geographic distribution. Only certain..."
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"Does that make sense? If you don't do it this way, if it's just the best and brightest, then what will happen is, like,..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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