From Danwei.org:
This week’s China Newsweek contains a column by Xu Youyu , a research fellow with the Institute of Philosophy at CASS . Xu counters the nostalgia for a purer, more honest age before Deng Xiaoping’s capitalist reforms by arguing that corruption was indeed present during the early days of the People’s Republic; it was simply more effectively hidden.
Xu’s article fits in to the current left-right debate between intellectuals who advocate further economic and political reforms and those who think the reforms have already gone too far. [Full Text]
See the article “There was no corruption in the past?” by Xu Youyu from China Newsweek in Chinese.
[Image: The four expression of corrupt officials, from Danwei.org.]
