Podcast 01｜From the First Emperor to the Revival of Roman Law: State-Building Meets the Rule of Law
This is the transcript of episode 01 of my podcast Reasoned Talk (议正言辞). Listen on Xiaoyuzhou or Apple Podcasts . The episode is in Chinese; this transcript has been translated into English. Introduction On February 5, 2020, during the COVID-19 outbreak, Wuhan’s first temporary hospital opened. In a photograph taken almost by accident by a Hubei Daily reporter, a young man lay on a hospital bed reading Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order. The image went viral, and the book became a bestseller in China. It was as though the pressure of the pandemic had prompted people to pay closer attention to political order and state-building. ...