{"id":178268,"date":"2014-10-17T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=178268"},"modified":"2014-10-17T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T06:21:23","slug":"tigers-selectively-purged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/10\/tigers-selectively-purged\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyger! Tyger! 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Indeed most are from peasant or similarly humble origins; none are easily identified as being members of what is known as the \u2018Red Second Generation\u2019 \u7ea2\u4e8c\u4ee3, that is, the children of the founding Communist Party fathers and mothers of the Yan\u2019an era and early People\u2019s Republic or, indeed, \u2018Bureaucrat Second Generation\u2019 \u5b98\u4e8c\u4ee3, that is, the children of members of the first generation of representatives\/ bureaucrats selected to join the inaugural convocations of the National People\u2019s Congress or the National People\u2019s Political Consultative Committee, both founded in 1954 (in the Mao era a high-level cadre was above Rank Thirteen in the Twenty-four Rank Cadre System \u4e8c\u5341\u56db\u7ea7\u5e72\u90e8\u5236).<\/p>\n<p>It goes with saying that, in the murky corridors of Communist power, an impressive number of party gentry progeny, or the offspring of the Mao-era nomenclatura, have been implicated in corrupt practices, but word has it that, like the well-connected elites of other climes, they\u2019ve enjoyed a \u2018soft landing\u2019: being discretely relocated, shunted into delicate retirement or quietly \u2018redeployed\u2019. It\u2019s all very comfy; and it\u2019s all very business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>What has been extraordinary about the Xi-Wang anti-corruption purge is not so much its style or extent, but the fact that after nearly two years, members of the privileged families of the party-state have gone on the record to observe why they are above the grimy business of corruption. [\u2026] The following is a small sample of some recent observations on the anti-tiger corruption purge by some of the more outspoken members of China\u2019s Red Gentry. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechinastory.org\/2014\/10\/tyger-tyger-a-fearful-symmetry\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At The New York Times, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/18\/opinion\/crony-communism-in-china.html\"><strong>Minxin Pei examines the nature and scale of corruption in China<\/strong><\/a>\u2014organized into &#8220;pernicious&#8221; local webs spun around infrastructure development and privatization\u2014and the strategy and risks of Xi&#8217;s campaign against it. Rather than a stratified side-effect of poor pedigree, Pei sees a pervasive form of &#8220;Crony Communism&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[\u2026] Mr. Xi\u2019s campaign goes well beyond any immediate desire to establish his political supremacy. It is unprecedented in sweep and ambition, taking on the class of 5,000 or so very senior officials who operate the most vital organs of the C.C.P., the government, the military and state-owned enterprises. Its goal is no less than to upend the unspoken system by which China\u2019s elites have been governing since the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989: a self-reinforcing web of relations based on patronage and corruption. As a leader driven by a historic mission to safeguard the C.C.P.\u2019s rule against all odds, Mr. Xi sees endemic corruption as a serious threat to the regime\u2019s long-term survival.<\/p>\n<p>But corruption has penetrated so very deeply into the party-state that it has become the glue that holds it together. And so Mr. Xi\u2019s campaign, which is meant to ensure the C.C.P.\u2019s longevity, seems to pose an existential threat to it in the short or medium term. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/18\/opinion\/crony-communism-in-china.html\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The China Story, Geremie Barm\u00e9 highlights the apparent focus of Xi Jinping&#8217;s corruption crackdown on officials from humble backgrounds, rather than his own princeling comrades: It is noteworthy that all forty-eight \u2018Tigers\u2019 \u8001\u864e, that is high-level corrupt officials, are reportedly from \u2018commoner\u2019 \u5e73\u6c11 families. Indeed most are from peasant or similarly humble origins; none [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":166176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14744,14745,14746,100,5,38],"tags":[203,6686,3253,3945,16819,4674],"class_list":["post-178268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","category-the-great-divide","tag-corruption","tag-geremie-r-barme","tag-minxin-pei","tag-princelings","tag-xi-anti-corruption-campaign","tag-xi-jinping","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tyger! 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