Who considered traditional China to be a highly politicized society, as demonstrated by what

Who considered traditional China to be a highly politicized society? What do you mean by politicized? It is not rigorous for him to say so. What he probably means is that traditional China was a centralized society, a society with a strong feudal dictatorship. That is not bad. In medieval Europe, there were many hereditary nobles, each occupying a piece of territory, often in opposition to the king, who sometimes did not have as much power and wealth as the nobles; whereas in China, more than 2,000 years ago, Emperor Qin Shihuang united the whole country and set up the county system, with a very strong central government, and the localities were run by officials at all levels, without the hereditary nobility that existed in the West. Of course, there are times when China is divided, but there are more times when the central government is strong.