Rotten to the core: monopoly of power leads to rampant corruption
Article Abstract:
China's anti-corruption campaign has exposed widespread abuse by the country's large bureaucracy. A notable indication was the sentencing on Aug 27, 1993 of Yu Zuomin, former leader of Daqiuzhuang village, and associates for trying to cover up a murder in 1992. The Peking government, which used to praised Yu as an exponent of Deng Xiaoping's market reforms, described the crimes of Yu and others as individual acts that did not invalidate the regime's economic policies. However, the Chinese public may see corruption as the inevitable result of uncontrolled bureaucratic power.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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Raging inflation: Lhasa price protests escalate into anti-Chinese riot
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Residents of Lhasa, Tibet's capital, protested against price increases and the charging of fees for formerly free medical services. These protests soon developed into a riot against Chinese rule that ceased only after Chinese troops moved into the affected district and the Peking government vowed to take action against inflation. Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, attributed the riot to rising anti-Chinese feeling among the Tibetans and admonished the Chinese government not to overreact. The riots may presage further discord between China and its provinces.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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Broad canvass
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The 52 million members of the Communist Party of China, gathered throughout decades of turbulent history and ideological changes, form a group as vastly diverse in its make-up as a small nation. This diversity is portrayed in the lives of individuals from different backgrounds: one rural, one from an urban state enterprise and one princeling born to join the Party but who has opted out. Such diversity redefines the meaning of being a communist in China at a time when communism is collapsing everywhere else in the world.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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