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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