Translations: China’s “Officialdom Complex”—Cures and Effects

Translations: China’s “Officialdom Complex”—Cures and Effects

While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has endured: the existence of an elevated official class, to which fiercely contested examinations offer an entryway. A pair of recent essays on WeChat discuss the social, economic, and other effects of China’s “officialdom complex.” The first, by the public account Ni Ren, describes the official system as an ossifying force causing the misdirection of human t…