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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

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by Richard Mcgregor


  rehearses his marching drills, 104

  retires to Shanghai, 163

  rivalry with Hu, 154–5

  Selected Works, 165

  and Shanghai gang, 148–9

  Taiwan policy, 128–9

  takes up and hands over power, 153–4

  theory of, 172

  on Zhu Rongji, 43

  Jiang Zhenghua, 260

  Jiangsu Tieben Iron & Steel, 220–23

  Jin Zhong, 148

  joint venture, 216–17

  journalists, 184, 190, 252

  and corruption reports, 160

  demand freedom, 30, 80

  on local officials, 180

  judges, 15, 24, 25, 93, 114, 137

  June 4 protest see Tiananmen Square massacre

  Justice Bureau, 190

  Kremlinology, 18

  Kuomintang, 123–5

  labour law, 214

  Ladany, Laszlo, 77

  Lai Changxing, 159

  law firms, Party control of, 23

  lawyers, 15, 25, 30, 265

  Party membership, 23

  in Sanlu case, 189, 190, 193

  leadership

  battles over, 3

  succession, 153–4, 163

  Lee Teng-hui, 127–8

  Legal Daily, on Sanlu case, 187

  legal professionals see judges; lawyers legal system

  Party control of, 15, 22–5

  PLA members in, 114

  see also judges; lawyers

  Lenin, Vladimir

  establishes Orgburo, 76

  ruling model, xiii, 12, 14

  Lenovo, 204

  ‘les énarques’, 9

  ‘Li Bu’, 77

  Li Changchun, 279n

  Li Changjiang, 183, 191

  Li Datong, 235, 248, 249–52

  Li Fangping, 189, 190

  Li Fanping, 264, 265

  Li Gang, 70, 98–9

  Li Jijun, Lieutenant-General, 245

  Li Jinai, General, 107

  Li Ka-shing, 158

  Li Keqiang, 23–4, 279n

  Li Lihui, 53

  Li Liming, 101, 102, 103

  Li Peng, 81, 148, 239

  Li Rucheng, 216

  Li Rui, 240–41, 242–4, 247

  Li Ruigang, 238

  Li Ruihuan, 253

  Li Weimin (fictional), 95–6

  Li Wenyao, 257–8

  Li Xiaopeng, 283n

  Li Yongzhong, 146

  Li Youxing, 142

  Li Yuanchao, 72, 75, 89–90, 91–2

  Li Zhaoxing, 125

  Liang Jing, 179

  liberal economics, 28–9

  Liberation Army Daily, 107–8

  Liberation Daily, 242

  life style

  of top-ranked party members, 10

  of urban citizens, 27

  The Lighthorseman, 242

  Lin Chong-pin, 134

  Linfen, 82

  Liu Baiyu, 78

  Liu Mingkang, 66–7

  Liu Shihui, 265

  Liu Xiaobo, 261–2

  Liu Yonghao, 215

  Liu Yongxing, 194, 219, 220, 223–5

  Liu Zhihua, 138

  Liu Zhongde, 229, 237

  local economy, 174–5

  localities

  vs. central, 90–93, 172–4, 180–81

  competitiveness, 175–7, 178

  and new tax policy, 179–80

  Lou Jiwei, x–xi, 59–60

  Lu Hao, 236

  Lu Weidong, 20–21

  Luo Gan, 25

  Lushan meeting, 243

  Ma De, 93–4, 97–8, 99–100, 103

  Ma Jinlong, 218

  Ma Ying-jeou, 126, 130

  Mackenzie, Kelvin, 18

  Major, Bob, 186

  Mao Yushi, 261

  Mao Zedong, 105, 253

  and Central Organization Department, 76

  death, body preservation and verdict on, 244–6, 247

  and Gang of Four, 149

  and Great Leap Forward, 231

  image of, 6, 246–7

  at Lushan meeting, 243

  nominates successor, 154

  on Party and people, 13–14

  status of, 241–2

  market reforms, outcomes of, 42

  Marketing Dictatorship (Brady), 236

  McKinsey & Co, 88, 181

  meals, invitation for, 71

  media

  on anti-Japanese protests, 271

  censorship, 235–6, 237–8, 247–8, 250–52

  on corruption, 144, 155, 160, 161, 166

  focus of, 18–19

  on food scandals, 183, 184

  less restriction on, 268

  official campaigns on military loyalty to Party, 107–9

  Party’s guidelines for, 237, 248–9

  Sanlu’s PR effect on, 185

  on Taiwan issue, 127

  uniformed announcement of new leadership, 4

  melamine, 184–5

  Mengniu, 181–2

  Merrill Lynch, 47, 48–9

  Miao Shouliang, 206

  middle class, 205, 266

  money worship, 132–3

  rich list, 205–7

  size of, 28

  milk powder case see Sanlu

  Miller, Alice, 21

  mining, 82, 192–3

  Ministry of Personnel, 80

  minying, 200

  Mitsubishi, 54–5

  Moeller Villa, 161

  money worship, 132–4

  Morgan Stanley, 52, 181

  Mulvenon, James, 108

  Murdoch, Rupert, 17

  Naipaul, V.S., 30

  name cards, 70

  Namibia case, 148

  Nanjing, 180–81

  National Day parade, 263–4

  National People’s Congress, 49

  1977, 44

  1987, 36

  2002, 153, 154, 208

  2004, 129

  2007, 1–4, 11–12, 67, 125, 137

  2009, 24, 25

  Nationalist Party, 123–5

  navy, xvi

  NCO system, 117, 118

  new conservatives, 38–9

  New York Times, 245

  New Zealand, in milk scandal, 188

  NGOs, 211

  Ni Hanwei, 31

  Nian Guangjiu, 194–6, 201

  9/11, 270

  Ningbo, 162

  Nissan, 216–17

  Niu Yuqing, 146

  Nixon, Richard, 19–20

  nomenklatura system, 78–81

  North Korea, 174, 175

  novels, genre of, 144

  Obama, Barack, xvi

  oil

  legacy of Daqing, 113, 115

  overseas interest, 116

  shortage, 63

  old boy network’, 9

  Olympics, 170–71, 186

  one-child policy, 280n

  O’Neill, Jim, 277n

  Organization Department, Human, 71

  Orgburo, 76

  Ouroussoff, Nicolai, 19

  Ouyang Song, 192

  Pan Junxiang, 234–5

  Pan Yue, 39–40

  Paris, Crillon Ball, 66

  Party membership

  as a commitment, 11

  change of political attire, 66

  mid-2009, xiv personal files, 77–8

  promotion of, 32

  students and the rich expand, 31–2

  Party schools, 29, 30, 226–8

  patriotism campaign, 236, 270

  Paulson, Hank, xi

  peanut products scandals, 191

  Pei, Minxin, 267

  Peking University, centenary, 79, 80

  Peng Dehuai, 243

  People’s Armed Police, 111

  People’s Daily

  on banking system, xi

  on Japan, 238

  People’s Liberation Army, 103

  challenges of modern society, 111–12

  commercial empire, 114

  dual leadership system, 117–20, 121 />
  founding principle of, 105

  media campaigns on PLA’a loyalty to Party, 107–9

  modernization of, 105–6, 111

  officer class, 120–21

  Party’s control of, 110

  propaganda, 121–2

  refuses Tiananmen Square crackdown, 109–10

  security and domestic duty, 111, 113–14, 115

  on Taiwan issue, 128–9

  personal consumption, 269

  pet food scandals, 183, 184–5

  Petitioner’s Village, 2

  PetroChina, 61–3, 116

  Ping’an, 204–5

  Politburo members

  above corruption investigation, 147

  biography of, 7–8

  responsibilities of, 13

  selecting of, 12

  similarity of appearance and career history, 1–2

  structure, 278 9n

  political commissar system, 118–20

  political liberals, 38

  political opponents

  controlled for political events, 2–3

  less confrontational treatment of, 268

  marginalization of, xiv

  punishment of, 232

  Political Struggles in the Age of China’s Reform and Opening Up (Yang Jisheng), 254

  post-Maoist governing model, xii, xiii

  poverty

  definition, 278n

  number of poor declines, xvii, 28

  power-worship, 96

  private sector, 39, 194

  confusion of status, 199–200, 203–4

  relationship with Party, 31, 32, 79, 193, 196–8, 200–202, 206–9, 215–19

  in Shanghai, 151

  see also entrepreneurs; individual companies

  Procrustes, 235

  protests

  anti-Japanese protests, 270–72

  to Shanghai building development, 135–7, 164, 167–8

  see also ethnic protests; Tiananmen Square massacre

  public sector

  appointment, 73–5, 81, 82–3, 284–5n; see also nomenklatura system

  bribery/corruption, 75, 93–100, 138–41, 172, 183, 191; see also Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

  system in history, 77

  Pudong, 150

  Qian Lieyang, 143, 222

  Qian Qichen, 17

  Qin Yu, 156, 165

  Qingdao, 202–3

  Qinheng prison, 166

  raw materials, 219

  see also oil

  real estate, 155, 179

  scandals, 135–7, 158–60, 164, 167

  Red Army see People’s Liberation Army

  ‘red machines’, 8–10, 13

  religions, 211

  Ren Zhengfei, 204, 206

  Renminbi, xv, 244

  rich list, 205–7

  rich-poor gap, 30

  Rio-Tinto, 58–61

  Robinson, Tom, 37

  rural free-market, 36, 200, 202, 267

  Russia

  China’s loan to, xv

  cost of disintegration, 131

  Sanlu, 169, 172, 181, 182, 264

  cover-up strategy, 186–7, 233

  emergency meeting, 170, 171

  media appearance, 185–6, 187

  parent complants, 184, 185, 188–9

  Party’s control of, 193

  product tests, 186

  trial and verdicts, 190–91

  Sapio, Flora, 141, 142–3

  SARS, 16, 233, 239, 268

  SASAC, 86

  Schapira, Paul, 61

  school textbooks, censorship, 235, 245–6

  security, for political events, 2–3, 263

  Seeking Truth, 107

  Service, Robert, xiii

  Shagang steelworks, 207

  Shambaugh, David, 121, 265–6

  Shanghai

  city development, 29, 162–3

  corruption cases, 135–7, 139, 144, 158–61, 164, 167–9

  leadership compound, 14

  past and present, 149–53, 234–5

  status, 138

  Shanghai gang, 149–53

  crashed, 166–7

  in Standing Committee, 154

  see also Chen Liangyu

  Shanghai History Museum, 234–5

  Shanghai Industrial, 101

  Shanghai Petrochemical Corp., 47–9

  Shanghainese, 152–3

  land disputes, 135–7, 158–60, 164, 167

  Shao Daosheng, 98

  Shao Depeng, 217

  Shen Ting, 159, 164, 167–8

  Shen Wenrong, 207

 

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