Carl Minzner: End of an Era

On this week’s show, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Carl Minzner, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and specialist in Chinese law, about his new book End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its Rise. No mere litany of the ways in which China has grown illiberal in the time since the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989, the book explores the underlying reasons for China’s hardening and approaches the question with admirable empathy. With the recent announcement of proposed changes to China’s constitution that would end the two-term limit in place since 1982, the conversation around the reasons for the illiberal turn is more urgent than ever. The topic is one that Kaiser and Jeremy have discussed before many times on the show, but Carl brings fresh angles to the conversation, including an exploration of how changes in China’s educational system may be foreclosing social mobility in China. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.