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Deposed Sichuan Gov. Wei Hong joins a long list of those sidelined in a sweeping crackdown on dissent, civil society and corrupt officials.
However, the accusations against Wei are unusual in that they make no mention of graft or any other crime, which some observers took as a sign that Xi has become powerful enough to take down major politicians without charging them with criminal activity. Wei was accused only of violating "party discipline," not of breaking the law, demoted to a vice departmental post and removed from his party duties.
Wei had been "disloyal to the party, dishonest and failed to value the many opportunities to receive education and rectify his wrongdoing," the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in an unusually long statement on its website.
Along with "seriously violating political and organizational discipline," he also sought to subvert the investigation, refused to confess and interfered with judicial activities, the commission said. [Source]
The New York Times' Chris Buckley describes the ongoing campaign by President Xi Jinping to consolidate his political power and eliminate those who fail to toe the party line. This has seen the revival of references to Xi as the "core leader," which were satirized by CDT cartoonist Badiucao this week.
As Mr. Xi confronts economic challenges and prepares to pick a fresh cohort of subordinates, he has demanded that Communist Party officials close ranks around him more tightly than ever, and references to Mr. Xi as the "core" leader have become a daily occurrence in China's state-run news media.
[…] In the stagecraft of Chinese politics, formulaic expressions like "core" are tokens of power. Officials have suggested that hailing Mr. Xi as a leader of such stature — one in the footsteps of Deng, who ruled China through its transformation after Mao's death — carries a warning not to question, let alone challenge, his authority as the government navigates turbulent changes.
[…] Mr. Xi, whose formal titles include general secretary of the Communist Party, has signaled his demands for greater loyalty through recent central leadership meetings, with the message filtering downward. "Party and government, military, civilian and learning — east, west, south, north and center — the party is leader of all," Mr. Xi said at a meeting last month,according to a widely circulated report by a propaganda team devoted to promoting him.
In a burst of statements since that meeting, dozens of provincial-level leaders and other senior cadres have vowed — and demanded from their subordinates — unflinching allegiance to "General Secretary Xi Jinping, the core." Each day this week has brought new such declarations of allegiance to Mr. Xi in the state-run news media. [Source]
At South China Morning Post, Li Jing reports that the Communist Youth League and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have been criticized in recent days for deviating from the Party's Marxist ideological line:
The Communist Youth League, once the cradle for promising young cadres and future political high-fliers, has been criticised by inspectors from the Communist Party's top disciplinary watchdog for its self-serving attitude, with some cadres considering themselves "political aristocrats".
[…] In its latest round of inspections of 31 institutions, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection also criticised the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a top think tanks, for not sufficiently toeing the Marxist line, in what an analyst said was another sign of tightening in ideology.
The CCDI said in a statement late Thursday that the league's central committee had not fully implemented the party's decision to improve the work of mass organisations. The committee was also overly bureaucratic, and some officials regarded themselves as "political aristocrats", according to the statement. [Source]
Meanwhile, the Communist Party is now calling all of its members to pay their membership fees in person as a display of commitment. From Nectar Gan at SCMP:
The mouthpiece newspaper of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's corruption watchdog, said in an article on Wednesday that when it came to paying party fees, it was less about the money than the spirit.
"Paying party membership fees in person is a process of alerting [oneself and reminding oneself of] the party spirit…No matter how good our life has become, we should never forget this root of being a communist, and especially should not regard it as a trouble or loss," it reads.
[…] "Some people ask their secretaries to do it for them, some only pay every half a year, some ask accountants to subtract [from their salaries]…These are all wrong. Cadres should go to the party groups or branches where they belong to hand in the fees themselves," Li told a group of officials on Sunday.
Ding Xueliang, a Chinese politics professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said since the party took power in 1949, paying membership fees was no longer important in economic terms. Instead, "the significance now lies mainly in showing organisational loyalty and cadres' discipline," he said. [Source]
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In recent years, a certain saying about Qing history has emerged among academic historians called "new Qing history." This was not invented by Chinese historians but in fact comes from overseas — created together by several American historians!
The American scholars who support "new Qing history" view the history of China from an imperialist standpoint, with imperialist points of view and imperialist eyes, regarding "traditional" China as an "empire," regarding the Qing dynasty as "Qing dynasty imperialism." Their theory and discourse are shot through with imperialist arrogance. Differentiating their work from 20th century studies of imperialism, they call it "new imperial history" (新帝国主义史学). "New Qing history" is one example.
[…] "New Qing History" is academically absurd, and politically does damage to the unity of China. It is necessary to stir all scholars with a sense of righteousness to fiercely oppose it. We entirely reject "New Qing History." Moreover, we expose its mask of pseudo-academic scholarship, eliminating the deleterious effect it has had on scholarship in China! [Source]
Noting that he is "pretty firmly in the camp of New Qing History," Jeremiah Jenne addresses the controversy at his Jottings from the Granite Studio blog, highlighting and translating other passages from Li's article and elsewhere. From Jenne's own comments:
The idea of Manchu Sinicization is a hobgoblin unlikely to die anytime soon in China. Historians affiliated with what has become known as the "New Qing History" have been attempting to complicate this narrative for nearly three decades, and while scholars overseas — and even a few within China — are starting to come around, the dominant narrative inside China remains that the Manchus succeeded in ruling because, unlike earlier non-Han dynasties, they assimilated and adopted Chinese styles of rule and other cultural values. Indeed, according to the most strident adherents of "Sinicization", the Manchus couldn't help but assimilate once they encountered the vastly superior civilization of China.
[…] The Manchus also conquered vast areas in what is today Western China, including Tibet and Xinjiang. They were also the first state on the mainland to consolidate their control over the island of Taiwan. This makes the issue of Manchu cultural identity politically problematic as well. Separating the Manchu-rued Qing Empire from the post-imperial governments of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China not only complicates modern Chinese attempts at establishing the extent of the Qing Empire as "inherent territory," it also recalls bad memories of Japanese and British attempts to use the "Manchu-ness" of the Qing Empire to wrest control over Manchuria and Tibet respectively. [Source]
Jenne cites Ge Jianxiong and Yao Dali as notable dissenters to Li's view within China, and translates from the former's essay "To exaggerate the size of China's historical territory is not patriotic." Another objector is Feng Xuerong, whose recent Weibo post "The Five Great Jokes of Chinese History" mocked "patriotic" historians. From a translation at That's:
The overarching theme to modern Chinese history: oppose imperialism and save the nation, become independent and autonomous. Right? Absolutely. But whenever anyone touch upon the Mongolian people striving for independence, our "patriotic" youth immediately become hostile.
[…] I can oppose imperialism but you can't be independent. The governor can set great fires but the common people can't light their lanterns.
The Outer Mongolian people were Outer Mongolian people; then, they were Qing subjects. They were never Chinese. They have a right to decide not to be Chinese if they don't want to. We're all people and we should all be equal.
I can oppose imperialism but you can't be independent – this is a double standard, the logic of the bandit. [Source]
Read more on Chinese history, Tibet and Xinjiang, and the racial politics of China's periphery, via CDT.
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Certain countries in the West advertise their own values as "universal values," and claim that their interpretations of freedom, democracy, and human rights are the standard by which all others must be measured. They spare no expense when it comes to hawking their goods and peddling their wares to every corner of the planet, and stir up "color revolutions" both before and behind the curtain. Their goal is to infiltrate, break down, and overthrow other regimes. At home and abroad certain enemy forces make use of the term "universal values" to smear the Chinese Communist Party, socialism with Chinese characteristics, and China's mainstream ideology. They scheme to use Western value systems to change China, with the goal of letting Chinese people renounce the Chinese Communist Party's leadership and socialism with Chinese characteristics, and allow China to once again become a colony of some developed capitalist country. [Source]
Criticism of minister Yuan's calls for ideological control in university teaching has crystalized around three questions posed by Shen Kui, former vice dean of Peking University Law School: how to distinguish Western from Chinese values and attacks on the Party from legitimate criticism, and what legal and constitutional basis exists for the measures Yuan proposed. In a blog post at Caijing, later deleted, property mogul Ren Zhiqiang echoed the first of these, adding: "If our own value systems are superior to Western value systems, if China wishes to see the world accept China's value system, then why can't the two value systems be allowed to openly compete on the same platform? Why is it necessary to fear Western value systems?" The three questions also formed the apparent basis of a freedom of information application to the Ministry of Education by nine lawyers, reiterating the suggestion that Yuan's proposals were unconstitutional.
In response, search engines blocked terms related to Shen's inquiry, while a pair of commentaries on the Communist Youth League's website accused him of "harboring evil intentions." Editorials in the People's Daily, Guangming Daily, and the China Education Daily, and on Xinhua's website, propounded some of Yuan's key points:
- Do not restrict what can be researched, but impose discipline on what is said in classrooms.
- Increase control over [university] radio, television, billboards, the Internet, public lectures, research seminars, lectures, forums, and the activities of organizations.
- Establish systems so that every meeting and event gets reported.
- Under no circumstances provide any room for the dissemination of any erroneous Western viewpoints or inappropriate speech that is anti-Marxist or anti-socialist. [Source]
A propaganda directive subsequently published by CDT ordered media to amplify the voices of Yuan and his defender, CASS scholar Zhu Jidong, and stifle those of their critics. At the Communist Youth League and Global Times, blogger Wang Dehua issued retorts to the nine lawyers and to Ren Zhiqiang, asking "if you are not doing anything illegal, then why are you afraid of the gun and the knife?"
Another Communist Youth League commentary highlighted alleged ideological "orientation problems" at web portal NetEase, which had hosted online lessons from foreign universities: "Its like some kind zombie virus you see in American movies, its not enough that they themselves are infected, they must bite everyone they see, with the end goal being to plunge China into chaos. […] Under no circumstances allow some bizarre genetic mutation whereby we become transformed into zombies spreading the virus of Western value systems."
This week, the Associated Press's Christopher Bodeen reported analysts' views on the campaign against Western values, highlighting a recent declaration in the state-run Global Times that "no matter how beautiful they appear on the surface, they are in fact a ticket to hell, and can only bring disaster to the Chinese nation."
Such pronouncements are clearly being dictated from the highest party echelons, said Li Datong, a political commentator who has been removed from a state media senior editing job for broaching sensitive subjects.
"These people talking so harshly now were only recently espousing greater openness, not less. Clearly things have changed," Li said.
[…] Observers see the more combative language as an outgrowth of Xi's calls for stronger party control and a more vigorous role for China on the world stage.
"I do think this is very much an initiative that Xi Jinping approved, if not started," said Steve Tsang, senior fellow at the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute.
[…] Tsang said that approach underscores Xi's confidence in the political model he's adopted, but also betrays his nervousness about the party's ability to retain power. The Hong Kong protests were especially nerve-rattling because they showed the influence of Western thinking over public attitudes in the former British colony, which enjoys its own legal system and other freedoms.
"Hence the current warning against Western values," Tsang said. [Source]
The anxiety appears closely linked to Party officials' dread of echoing the collapse of the Soviet Union, which The Washington Post's Simon Denyer describes as one of two great historical traumas—along with China's own Cultural Revolution—shaping Xi Jinping's presidency.
In this and in the growing ideological controls on sectors ranging from the news media to the military, Xi is resisting forces that he thinks brought the Soviet regime to its knees. Paradoxically, though, he also has seen the dangers of international isolation and an inward focus, factors that helped weaken Mao's China and the Soviet Union. That paradox, between "reform and opening" on the one hand and excluding Western values on the other, has created an unresolved tension in his presidency.
Cheng Enfu, the director of the Institute of Marxism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, predicted that the president's efforts to combat this "infiltration" of Western values could become as intense as his anti-corruption campaign.
[…] The problem, Harvard's MacFarquhar says, is that Xi has no coherent or convincing new ideology to offer.
"He has got no positive weapon against the Western infiltration of ideas, so he has to be negative about it," he said. "It's a tremendous contradiction he faces, to keep Western ideas out while building a creative, technological and developed society." [Source]
Xi has tried to fill the gap with appeals to Mao's lingering authority and, incongruously, to that of classical Chinese philosophers such as Confucius. At Caixin, Nailene Chou Wiest wrote last week that Western values are a contentious subject in this arena, too:
Some "Red Confucians" envision the dawn of a new era, repeating the momentous act of the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who decreed Confucianism the state ideology, shaping political and social institutions for the following two millennia. […]
But Confucian intellectuals outside the mainland look at the state patronage askance. Yu Yinshi, professor emeritus of Chinese studies at Princeton, calls it a "kiss of death" because co-opted intellectuals will lose their independence and censor themselves to please their patrons. He contends that in Chinese history, Confucians touched by politics became either the persecutor or the persecuted. In the same vein, Li Minghui, a professor of moral philosophy from Taiwan, scorns the flaky quasi-religious, hierarchical Confucian utopia proposed by "self-styled" Red Confucians. He argues that a free democratic political institution is the best way to ensure the flourishing of Confucian values in culture, ethics and philosophy.
The mainland team fights back, asserting that Confucianism is not just a philosophy of personal cultivation but a holistic vision on political and social realms. The emphasis on statecraft and on the tradition of Confucius as an institutional reformer is all the more necessary in the new millennia for a rising China. They accuse intellectuals outside the mainland of unfairly picking out the "outlier" among their ranks for ridicule. Worse, overseas Confucians seek to legitimize Confucianism in Western terms by finding common elements in European philosophy to aid their cheerleading for liberal democracy. The mission for mainland intellectuals is to break free from the Western discourse and establish their own paradigm of inquiry as part of China's war on Western values. [Source]
As for the recipients of the contested teaching, some students have suggested that a narrowing of approved studies might drive them to study abroad or online. At Foreign Policy, Liang Pan writes that the campaign could derail efforts to attract and retain educated youth:
This new round of ideological tightening has generated a chilling effect. Professors, especially those in the fields of humanities and the social sciences, feel the ice under their feet becoming dangerously thin — maybe impossibly so. "Every aspect of (China's) laws, be it the concept or the institution, are converging with the West," said He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University, in an Jan. 30 interview with German outlet Deutsche Welle. "If Western values are banned from China's legal education, we'll have no idea how to teach our classes." On Weibo, China's huge Twitter-like microblogging platform, Professor He further pointed out the hypocrisy of the new mandate. "Top [Western] universities are crowded with high-ranking party leaders' children. To protect the leaders' children from Western values," He wrote, "shouldn't the Ministry of Education require them to only go to socialist countries, such as North Korea, for study abroad?"
[…] Outflow of talent is a problem for China — and the party knows it. A June 2013 article in party mouthpiece People's Daily concluded that China had the "world's worst brain drain." […] Chinese education experts have long blamed a lack of academic freedom at Chinese universities, among other factors, for driving Chinese students and their parents to look overseas for higher education alternatives. […] [Source]
Of the 3.05 million Chinese who have studied abroad since the late 1970s, Liang adds, only around half have gone back. 1.44 million is still a large number, however: as Yuan Guiren himself previously argued, the return of so many students thoroughly steeped in Western values might be expected to have caused turmoil, if Western values did indeed pose a serious threat.
Existential menace or not, they have become a vogueish scapegoat. South China Morning Post's Chris Luo reports that Western ideology was blamed for corruption in the military this week:
"In the face of the tide of market economy and Western ideology's delusions, some of our military officials have failed to stand the test," said Peng, a civilian military cadre of People's Liberation Army (PLA) who holds the rank equivalent to major general.
"[These influences] distorted their concept of moral evaluation and value orientation," wrote Peng, a former official at the Academy of Military Sciences and now a deputy secretary-general of China National Security Forum.
The errant officials "turned their power into means for personal gains, resulting in the commercialisation and privatisation of power, and become the erosion of [Chinese] military", he wrote. [Source]
Foreign Policy's Alexa Olesen pointed to a yet more colorful illustration of "how fashionable it's become in China to invoke 'The West' as an all-purpose bogeyman":
When China's second-richest man Wang Jianlin, a real estate mogul worth $29.4 billion, sat down with state media for an Oprah-style interview this week, he was clearly in crisis-management mode. A little over a week earlier, his son, Wang Sicong, had sparked a scandal by telling reporters at a Valentine's Day charity event in Beijing that what he looked for in potential dates was a "big rack." Though Sicong insisted he was joking, state media was not amused and the official Xinhua News Agency published an editorial on Feb. 15 comparing him to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose lecherous antics have been well documented. Hong Kong-based English-language South China Morning Post called it "Buxomgate."
But the real scandal, at least according to the elder Wang, is Western influence. On Feb. 24, the elder Wang told state-run China Central Television that while his son was smart, he had left China to study abroad in elementary school, making his thinking very "Western." Sicong is "very independent," the billionaire said, and added that his son says whatever comes into his mind. "Though he's been back three years, that's still a short time. It may take five or eight years of being back for him to really become Chinese." The younger Wang, who has a degree in philosophy from University College London, did not respond to a request for comment from Foreign Policy sent via the social network Weibo. [Source]
China's state media regulator recently stepped in to prevent Wang Sicong's further corruption by a Tang Dynasty historical drama.
While CASS's Cheng Enfu predicted that the campaign could rival Xi's corruption crackdown in intensity, The Economist suggested last week that it could fizzle in fairly short order:
Unlike Mr Xi's campaign against corruption, which has been pursued with far greater vigour over a longer period than any other like it in the post-Mao era, the crackdown on campuses may not prove long-lived. Some Chinese academics, though mindful that several scholars have lost their jobs in the past two years because of their liberal views, privately scoff at the ritual repetition of vague slogans that has so far marked the current campaign. Some online commentators have openly criticised it. Ren Zhiqiang, a property developer, wrote to his millions of microblog followers: "Why is it necessary to fear Western values?" He noted that Marx himself was a Westerner.
The education minister and the party leaders of Peking and Tsinghua universities are not known as hardliners. Mr Yuan has spoken positively in the past about Western-style teaching methods which promote critical ways of thinking. One academic at Peking University says "everyone knows" that the three men do not believe their own words about the dangers of Western influences. Few expect the crackdown to affect teaching in such areas as science and medicine which do not touch on politically sensitive issues, even though they rely on Western textbooks. [Source]
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[…] Chen Jian, an expert at Cornell University on American-Chinese relations, says the mounting anti-Western invective is largely a tactic aimed at shifting attention from the potential repercussions of a slowing economy, the glaring gap between rich and poor and the jaw-dropping accounts of official corruption that have become daily fare here. "There is a profound sense of vulnerability within the party, even a sense of crisis," said Professor Chen, who experienced the excesses of the Cultural Revolution as an adolescent in China.
Yet Professor Chen and other analysts say the "hostile foreign forces" narrative is likely to have little impact on the generation of young Chinese weaned on Kobe Bryant and illegal downloads of "Seinfeld." "Just look at all the students who want to study in the United States," he said. "I don't think these anti-American messages are convincing anyone." [Source]
Officials have expressed particular fear of Western influence within government, with one blaming ideological compromise for the fall of the Soviet Communist Party. The State Council-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has been singled out as a focus of foreign infiltration. South China Morning Post's Cary Huang reports that these accusations are casting a shadow over the Academy's scholars:
The academy has long been seen as a stronghold of the mainland's Marxist-Leninist ideologues and a propaganda tool of the Communist Party. But it's also well respected. It is considered one of the world's largest research institutes for social sciences in terms of personnel and physical resources.
[…] Privately, some scholars at CASS said the recent developments had already sent a psychological chill through intellectual circles. The scholars said they were particularly concerned about the accusation of "foreign infiltration" because many had developed research relationships with foreign counterparts.
Some scholars publicly expressed concern that the tightening of ideological controls would distract from their academic research. [Source]
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The warnings to Cass, an influential government think tank, come at a time when President Xi Jinping is tightening his grip on the media and has launched sweeping anti-corruption and ideological campaigns targeting the civil service and state-owned enterprises, as well as an intense crackdown on liberal intellectuals and activists.
On Friday, the CCDI spoke to nine new discipline inspectors at another leading research institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, about their roles and the anti-graft campaign inside that academy.
During a session on Xi's thoughts on party discipline at Cass, Zhang [Yingwei] said the academy had "ideological problems".
These included using academic research as a guise for other purposes; using the internet to promote theories that played into the hands of foreign powers, allowing undue foreign influence in sensitive issues; and "illegal collusion" between Cass experts and foreign interests at sensitive times. [Source]
The Economist's Gady Epstein described the CASS's place within the hierarchy of Party think-tanks, journals and other organs in March. Read more on the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences via CDT. The Academy is not alone in coming under heightened scrutiny for "ideological problems": new recruitment rules for the Party itself place greater emphasis on ideological correctness.
Last year, Science Insider detailed the unsuccessful efforts of a former Ministry of Railways official to bribe his way to membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (also via CDT).
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The state-run Global Times mounted a spirited defense of chengguan last month, describing them as victims of prejudice and scapegoating by the public, and of inadequate support by higher authorities. "Any specific cases of simple and crude law enforcement by chengguan will be over-amplified and fuel public anger," it argued. It reported one such case the same day, in which a squad of chengguan had mistaken an official and his family for pyramid scheme salespeople in a Hefei park and, without explanation, attacked them with bamboo poles, leaving six injured and one with a broken back.
China Real Time's Dantong Ma explored the CASS report's other findings, some of which suggest that public resentment of officials can be a side effect of positive factors such as progressive policies and active media scrutiny.
More surprisingly, perhaps, is the kinds of officials were ranked as second-, third-, and fourth-most disliked officials: school managers, hospital managers and village heads. Though at least in theory, such officials are tasked with serving the public, the report's author, Tang Jun, says that since such officials control scarce resources and have limited restrictions on their power, they may be easily corrupted.
[…] The report also broke down official unpopularity according to province and found that southern Guangdong's officials received the nation's lowest marks. According to the report's "image crisis scale," Beijing-based officials also ranked second-to-last among residents, accounting for 4.7% of all 2,074 cases that negatively affected the image of the government, the report said. Guangdong accounted for 8.4% of such incidents.
One of the reason why residents might view officials in a prosperous province such as Guangdong with such resentment, analysts say, is that the province has been home to a number of new policies that may have created friction as they've been implemented. Such policies in recent years have included loosening the country's hukou system and implementing the country's second-child policy. [Source]
Global Times noted other suggested explanations:
Tang Jun, director of a crisis management research center at the Renmin University of China, said that the three regions [Guangdong, Beijing, and third-ranked Henan] have large populations with more migrant workers, which increases the difficulty of social governance.
Guangdong and Beijing are also known for their vibrant media industry, which results in high exposure of public incidents, Tang said.
Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Shandong, Hainan and Anhui provinces are ranked No.4 to 10 on the public image crisis list. [Source]
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The Chinese government will decentralize authority, be more transparent and adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to corruption this year as it deepens its fight against graft, reported state media on Sunday, citing Premier Li Keqiang.
The latest measures were laid out in a speech by Li Keqiang on February 11, in a meeting on tackling corruption, but only published by state news agency Xinhua late on Sunday.
Li Keqiang criticized the over-concentration of power by the central government and urged the institution of an open government "as the most effective way to accept supervision".
"When the government controls too much, directly intervenes in micro-economic activities, it not only influences the ability of the market to play a decisive role in the allocation of resources, it also increases transaction costs and makes it easy for corruption to breed," he said. [Source]
In an apparent reference to Zhou and his associates, a new edition of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' 'Blue Book of the Rule of Law' warned of senior officials creating loyalist cliques by promoting allies. The report also predicted that more corrupt officials are likely to try to flee the country as the anti-graft campaign continues. From Keith Zhai at South China Morning Post:
"The phenomenon of the flight of officials is likely to escalate, particularly under the current anti-graft wave," said Lu Yanbin, a researcher at the academy's Institute of Law and the co-author of the yearbook. "Corrupt cadres are running out of places to live in this country."
[…] A previous report from the CASS said about 18,000 officials fled the country between 1995 and 2008, and smuggled out assets totaling 800 billion yuan.
The Blue Book also warned against senior officials promoting their aides and creating a "secretary gang" that may breed "organised crime and major violations".
[…] Experts at the academy also predicted a pilot scheme requiring party officials to disclose their assets would be introduced in more areas this year.
[…] The annual report suggests the scheme should cover relatively recently appointed officials, but veteran government staff should be excluded. [Source]
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Some 38.1 per cent of those surveyed held more conservative values, were more critical of overall individualism and leaned towards the "left", a term that commonly refers to those more patriotic, according to the study by scholar Zhang Mingshu, director of the political culture research centre at the academy.
Only 8 per cent leaned to the "right", supporting more individual freedoms and a smaller government, and were more critical towards the Communist Party's legacy. The rest of those polled were categorised as centrists, neither left nor right.
"I was surprised," Zhang told the Guangzhou-based liberal newspaper Southern Weekly. "But if you calmly look around you – not only among intellectuals, but also in your hometown, if you go on the streets – you'll see that this ratio is fundamentally accurate."
Zhang surveyed 1,750 adult urban residents across the nation on their political views, their attitudes towards participating in politics and their knowledge about politics.
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The Blue Book of Social Mentality, the latest annual report on the social mentality of China, analyzed respondents' trust toward different people and organizations and drew a conclusion that trust in society is poor. The trust level was 59.7 points out of a full mark of 100 points.
In 2010, the trust level was 62.9 points.
[…] It showed that around 30 percent of the people polled trusted strangers on the street and about 24 percent trusted strangers online.
While People's Daily attributes the distrust to "the lack of shared social values" among Chinese, a report from South China Morning Post suggests that the reason might lie in Chinese parenting:
In most cases, a higher number of Chinese parents admitted to telling 'instrumental' lies which entice the child into doing something.
The report, published in the International Journal of Psychology, found that in both countries [China and the U.S.] the practice of lying to one's children to encourage behavioural compliance was rife and most frequently took the form of falsely threatening to leave a child alone in public if he or she refused to follow the parent.
[…] Cross-cultural differences were also seen: a larger proportion of the parents in China reported that they employed instrumental lie-telling to promote compliance, and a larger proportion approved of this practice, as compared to the parents in the US.
The arrests of six fake monks at the sacred Buddhist mountain Wutaishan will do little to solve the problem. From Josh Chin at The Wall Street Journal:
Some in China have argued that a revival of religion might help fill the moral vacuum that has been swirling at the center of Chinese society ever since the country shed its belief in communism to embrace market economics three decades ago. But with surveys showing trust eroding in China, news of a fake monk scheme at a sacred mountain suggests even religion isn't immune to the no-holds-barred hustler ethos that has come to dominate so much of the country.
[…] The Temple for the God of Wealth and another temple called Foguo Zhongxin reportedly hired fake monks to trick tourists into donating money and buying expensive incense, Xinhua said, adding that the temples also fooled tourists into paying too much for ceremonies.
[…] The companies in charge of managing Wutaishan and some of China's other sacred peaks have made headlines in recent years by announcing plans for initial public offerings on stock markets. Those announcements prompted Liu Wei, deputy director of China's State Administration for Religious affairs, to issue a press release in June saying the administration would object to the commercial exploitation of religious resources.
See also One-Child Policy Accused of Breeding Mistrust, via CDT.
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"I was deeply humiliated because I was not required to provide any hukou document when I was applying for visas to France and the United States after 9/11," Yu told the Sunday Morning Post.
[…] The incident comes amid growing calls to reform the system from inside and outside the government. Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun yesterday ordered local police chiefs, who handle routine hukou matters, to co-operate with other agencies in reforming the system, state television reported.
[…] "I demand that the British government stop requiring Chinese applicants to provide a hukou document, which is a discriminatory system created under the planned economic era of the last century and conflicts with today's common international values," Yu wrote in an open letter to the British government.
The hukou is not normally required for U.K. visas: Chan implies that the professor's customarily "tattered" clothing may have prompted the additional demand. Yu also spoke to Global Times about the incident. From Zhang Wen:
"I'll never provide my hukou, even if it's at the cost of not being able to attend the conference in the UK. It's my principle," said Yu.
[…] "What made me even angrier is that when I said I would never show them the hukou, an agent standing at the next counter immediately told me that he could help me to get the visa without me providing it," Yu said.
"It's blackmail. The agent is obviously familiar with the embassy employees," he said.
[…] Liu Guofu, an expert on immigration law from Beijing Institute of Technology said an embassy can ask for any supporting documentation it likes.
For more on China's hukou system, see two recent conversations with Tom Miller, author of China's Urban Billion, via CDT.
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Using surveys of 421 men and women in Beijing and testing their skills in economic games, researchers in Australia found those born after the 1979 policy were more pessimistic, nervous, less conscientious, less competitive and more risk averse. They also found them to be 23 percent less prone to choose an occupation that entails business risk, such as becoming a stockbroker, entrepreneur or private firm manager.
[…] Xin Meng, a co-author of the study who grew up in Beijing and left China in 1988, said she detects a different behavioral attitude among the only-child population compared with the previous generation. A 2011 incident where a two-year-old girl in southern China died after she was struck by two vans and ignored by 18 passersby caused a furor, with domestic media and Internet users criticizing Chinese society for a lack of morality.
"An incident like this is just unthinkable 20 years ago," said Meng, a professor of economics at the Australian National University in Canberra. "If you've lived in the Chinese society for a long time, you can sense the difference as people become more individualistic."
Lisa Cameron, another of the study's authors, discussed the findings (PDF transcript) with Sarah Crespi on the Science magazine podcast.
Some have expressed reservations about the study, however. From Rebecca Morelle at the BBC:
Professor Stuart West, from the University of Oxford, said the study was "very interesting".
However, he cautioned against some of the conclusions that had been drawn.
He explained: "They are making very strong claims about differences in behaviour for people born before or after 1979, and they are inferring it is all to do with the introduction of the one child policy in that year.
"The problem is that is a potential explanation for that data – but there are almost an infinite number of other explanations of anything else that could have varied with time: variation of socio-economic environment, prosperity, nutrition, political environment – anything."
And from Louise Watt at the Associated Press:
Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas in Austin who studies these children, was puzzled that the study's findings showed poor performance so consistently in virtually all measures. She said she would have expected a more mixed picture, and she hopes follow-up research is done.
[…] Careful studies done elsewhere that look for certain qualities in the only child find that "on average, they're pretty much like everybody else," she said.
A recent survey of 51,100 people by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences supports the idea that Chinese society lacks trust, according to Xinhua. Its authors, though, point to a wider range of contributing factors including migration.
The Chinese public was given a "trust score" of just 59.7 points out of a total of 100, according to the results of the CASS survey conducted among residents in seven cities, including Beijing, east China's Shanghai, south China's Guangzhou, central China's Wuhan and southwest China's Chongqing municipalities.
The survey showed that residents in China's central and western regions tend to trust others more than their eastern counterparts.
[…] Yang Yiyin, one of the survey's organizers, attributed the lack of trust to migration, China's transformation from a planned economy to a market economy and declining "family culture."
"People are more concerned about trust, especially in a transformative period when a new system of trust has not been established," said Yang.
Migration would not account for differences between the Australian study's native Beijingers, but its role in loosening the traditional social fabric finds anecdotal support in the Wang Yue incident cited above by Xin Meng. In October 2011, The Telegraph's Malcolm Moore visited the Foshan marketplace where the accident took place:
Although many other families live in the market above their stores, there is little sense of community. Just as in countless other hardscrabble suburbs across China, the residents are mostly migrants, drawn from all over the country.
They have little in common, beyond their shared desire to make money and improve their lot. And in the evenings, they close their shutters and retreat into their lonely stores.
"It is quite sad that we don't really talk to each other because we all sell different things," said a 50-year-old woman who would only name herself as Ms Hu, from a store selling abrasive pads a short stroll away from the Wang's shop.
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"Intercepting petitioners" refers to local officials using various measures to intercept people attempting to petition at the [provincial] or central offices and forcibly taking them back to their hometowns. In China's current political climate, the intercepting of petitioners has long been an open secret, an "unwritten rule" of petition office stability management work, an uncivilized but tacitly accepted rule for government work, and an important part of the job of those who "greet petitioners." Whenever the two congresses or National Day or some other "sensitive" time rolls around, many additional 'petitioner interception' workers come to Beijing to intercept petitioners from their local area to prevent petitioners from staying in Beijing and increasing the number of complaints about their locale on the record.
[…] Meeting petitioners' and 'intercepting petitioners' are both important reflections of the variation in today's national petitioning system. Petition officers and officials, local governments, and the central government all participate, using the system as a platform for a kind of game in which they attempt to maximize their own interests. But because of this they have fallen into problems [like the three Yu just listed and those below], this can be called the 'petitioning paradox.'
[…] The result is that as local governments use even more severe methods to deal with petitioners, the complaints of petitioners become more extreme, creating a vicious cycle.Because of this, the petitioning system has gone from useless to harmful; from reducing pressure to actively increasing it.
Yu was ranked 54th in Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012 for his ten-year plan for political reform in China.
Ten interceptors were said to have been jailed by a Beijing court early this month for illegally detaining petitioners. The court dismissed this as "fake news", however, and demanded an apology from Beijing Youth Daily, which first published the story. Petitioners were a key target of the security operation surrounding the recent 18th Party Congress, with some 10,000 detained. Read more about petitioners via CDT, including John Garnaut and Sanghee Liu's recent account of a former "stability preservation" official's experience as a petitioner, and Economic Observer's sympathetic profile of two Beijing-based interceptors.
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A large number of reports and analyses are produced daily by Party and government organs, state-owned research institutes, media organizations and quasi-governmental organizations in China, according to the many who have written them over the years. These reports are not published for the benefit of society at large. Rather, their circulation is restricted to senior officials, in order to keep them better informed of the situation in the country. Because they are kept as internal documents, these reports discuss problems more candidly and often include data and information that are deemed sensitive and are therefore withheld from the public.
The extensive and elaborate system for utilizing social-science research to develop policy recommendations for decision-makers should have made the Chinese government one of the best informed and advised in the world and uniquely equipped to address challenges facing the country. Yet, in many areas, the billions of yuan poured into government-funded research and the page after page of internal reference advice offered by the country's best scholars do not seem to have resulted in any improvement in the government's performance.
I asked a government researcher why all the good advice people like him had offered decision-makers did not seem to have any effect. "A lot of it is filtered out and does not reach people at the very top," he said. "Besides, the thinking of many decision-makers has ossified and just can't be changed."
Seeking advice is always easier than following it. The Chinese state has developed a sophisticated system for collecting information, analysis and policy recommendations. Whether it has made good use of the system is an entirely different matter.
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The turmoil in Shifang subsided on Wednesday as the local government canceled plans to build a copper molybdenum processing plant. Earlier this week, street protesters were greeted with tear gas and billy clubs. Unarmed residents were beaten and arrested. Now those detained have been released.
The events speak to the power of public scrutiny, facilitated by Weibo, to force political change in China. A police notice issued July 2 references the Law of the People's Republic of China on Assemblies, enacted in October 1989 after the bloody crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen months earlier. That law requires all protests to be formally approved by "competent authorities five days prior to the date of the activity." The website Over the Wall (墙外楼) posted the notice, along with scenes from the Shifang streets and a call to arms written by protesters:
Shifang City Police Department
Public Notice Regarding Illegal Assembly, Protest and Demonstration
Shifang Police Notice #1 (2012)
On July 2 a group organized and instigated illegal protest activities in violation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Assemblies, severely affecting normal social order and causing negative repercussions. To preserve social order and ensure the safety of all citizens and their property, we hereby hereby issue the following notice in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Assemblies, Processions and Demonstrations:
1) Gathering or participating in assemblies or demonstrations of any kind which have not been approved by public security organs is strictly prohibited.
2) The use of the Internet, cell phone SMS messages or other means to organize or instigate illegal assemblies, protests or demonstrations of any kind is strictly prohibited.
3) Public security organs will, in accordance with the law, order those holding or participating in illegal assemblies, protests or demonstrations to disperse. Public security organs will forcibly break up those who refuse to disperse.
4) Public security organs will, in accordance with the law, halt all those exhibiting extreme behavior while participating in illegal assemblies, protests or demonstrations. Those who refuse to obey orders will be removed or detained by force.
5) In firm accordance with the law, public security organs will stop, investigate and prosecute any persons who threaten public safety or damage social order by engaging in illegal activity while participating in illegal assemblies, protests or demonstrations.
6) Public security organs will, in accordance with the law, punish those who engage in criminal activities, including: participating in or taking responsibility for illegal assemblies, protests or demonstrations; gathering and disturbing social order; taking advantage of the situation to destroy property.
Shifang City Police Department
July 2, 2012
Save Shifang! All City Residents Unite!
People of Shifang, let's save our city!! It already a "cancer town," and they still want to build that molybdenum copper plant. We resolutely oppose this! This is our shared home, and it is our responsibility to protect it. Everyone is responsible for protecting the environment!!
Perhaps many people still do not know Shifang plans to build a molybdenum copper plant, and still more people do not know the damage this will cause. Once construction of the factory begins, it will already be too late. We do not want to leave Shifang! Shifang is the "Bright Pearl of Western Sichuan." We cannot leave! Heavy metal pollution will cause us terrible harm.
Are there really that many Shifang residents who have the money to move to another province? We must come together and work to keep the molybdenum copper plant far from Shifang!
People of Shifang, rise up!!
"Mass incidents" (群体事件), local protests targeting specific grievances, are on the rise. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) estimates that there were 90,000 such incidents in 2009, up from 60,000 in 2006. Yu Jianrong of CASS put the number of mass incidents in 1993 at only 8,709.
But it isn't protest alone that may be shifting power to the people. Like the backtracking forced on authorities after last year's train crash in Wenzhou, the outcome of Shifang depended on social media. Without the video, photos and documents circulating online, this week's protest may well have been fruitless.
The sheer volume of chatter about Shifang, and Han Han's blog post on the subject, seem to have kept relevant terms unblocked from Weibo search results. Authorities may also not have anticipated a local issue going national. Whatever the reason, the Shifang incident has remained surprisingly uncensored. Weibo, clearly, is power. What remains to be seen is if the public will simply continue to pressure the government case by case, or if true reform will follow.
Translation by Little Bluegill.
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Glenn Snyders will fly from Auckland to Los Angeles next week, knowing he's bound for Glasgow.
The breaststroke specialist will be part of a small New Zealand swimming team named tonight to contest the Commonwealth Games in Scotland later this year.
Snyders went under the tough qualifying times set for the Games at this week's New Zealand Open swim champs in Henderson in the 100 metres and 200m breaststroke when winning gold in the two events.
That made it a case of mission accomplished for the 27-year-old, who has been based in California over the past two years.
"All I came to do at trials was to qualify and I did that twice, so that was all I could ask for," Snyders said on Wednesday after twice beating the qualifying mark for the 100m event.
He now plans to return to training under the guidance of top coach Dave Salo in LA.
"I would like to stay there for a solid two-and-a-half to three months," Snyders said.
"There's quite a few competitions in May and June that I will probably race at, and the racing over there is top notch, so it's good to do some racing before Commonwealths."
Snyders said his permanent shift to the US was designed to give him his best shot at contesting a third Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
"It was something new, something exciting. I'd been at the Millennium [Swimming NZ's headquarters on the North Shore] for about 12 years - I just needed something different to be honest if I wanted to make it to Rio."
"I just got to the point where I was the only breaststroker really and, just being in the same place every day for 12 years - I needed something different. America had always been in the back of my mind - I wanted to go to college but that didn't work out because I wanted to go to the Olympics."
Salo was the head US women's coach at last year's world championships in Barcelona and is recognised as an excellent breaststroke coach.
Snyders works with Salo in a post-graduate professional squad at the University of Southern California with a host of internationals and Olympic medallists to help him lift his performances.
"Change is good" became Snyders' mantra.
"I'm getting older now and another four years was a hard ask," he said of his ambitions to finish his career on a high in Rio.
"I still have the drive and the passion to do it - it was just finding the thing that helps. Moving to the States and being in that environment at USC is great and it really helps."
However, Snyders said he doesn't expect all of New Zealand's top swimmers to follow in his wake - despite the current success of Lauren Boyle, who went through the University of California, Berkeley swim programme, and Auckland teenager Corey Main, who is now at the University of Florida and will also be going to Glasgow after qualifying in the 100m backstroke yesterday.
"Everyone has their own visions and goals," Snyders said.
"I was in a programme that I enjoyed back here in New Zealand. I was in with a good group of people and I progressed every year, I got better and better.
"It works for some people and it doesn't work for others. There are a good bunch of programmes here in New Zealand that delivers medallists too.
"It was something I wanted to do, whether they [Swimming NZ] backed me or not. And they do back me, so it's great to have that support."
Success in Glasgow won't be easy for Snyders - among his rivals for the 100m and 200m breaststroke are 2012 London Olympics 100m gold medallist Cameron van der Burgh from South Africa and top Australian Christian Springer.
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Shuvo Roy, Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute to develop alternative to dialysis using silicon nanotechnology.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering awarded Shuvo Roy, Ph.D., a $3.2 million, three-year grant today to develop a bio-artificial kidney that can be used instead of dialysis.
Dr. Roy and his team are using MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology to create an implantable, self-regulating bio-artificial kidney that will filter toxins and absorb necessary salts and water like human kidneys. The team includes physicians and engineers from the Lerner Research Institute's Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cleveland Clinic's Department of Nephrology.
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Martin Schreiber, M.D., Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, said the grant will help further one of Cleveland Clinic's key missions.
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Paul E. DiCorleto, Ph.D., Chairman of Lerner Research Institute added, "A program like this is an excellent example of our continual efforts to find ways to translate laboratory-based research into novel therapies and treatments that improve patient care."
More than 50 million dialysis procedures are performed annually in the U.S, according to data from the United States Renal Data System. The treatment of choice, kidney transplant, is severely limited by scarcity of donor organs, such that only 25 percent of patients on the waiting list for a transplant survive long enough to receive a kidney.
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