We MAGA Americans hate that we have lived under the yoke of an administrative state for over 100 years. We long to smash the administrative state to smithereens. But our Chinese friends have been ruled by a bureaucracy for about 2,000 years of administrative dynasties. The mandarins were faithful servants of the Son of Heaven, as our Woking Class are fierce advocates of Justice.

But I wonder if we Yanks could learn any lessons from the 2,000 years and more of Chinese dynasties.

If you Google "average length of Chinese dynasty" you get an expert from Harvard, Yuhua Wang, who says:

The 49 dynasties lasted for an average of 70 years[.]

Each of these dynasties was run by a bureaucracy of mandarins that had passed national tests in Chinese classics in an examination system that began in the Sui dynasty (581-618). La Wik:

The examination system played a significant role in tempering the power of hereditary aristocracy and military authority, and in the rise of a gentry class of scholar-bureaucrats.

Everything rolled along in perfect harmony, as dynasty succeeded dynasty, until the Brits showed up in 1793.

The Brits sent their Macartney mission to China in 1793 to propose a spot of trading. If trading with India had turned out to be a good thing,........

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