The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (43 page)

Nearly a decade
…: See Liu Yongxing, ‘Zai hangdong manbu qianxing’,
Nanfang Renwu Zhoukan
, Xu Linling [‘Slowly Advancing in a Cold Winter’,
Southern People Weekly
, Xu Linling], 27 November 2008. Also posted at http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2008-11-27/092716735980.shtml. All Liu’s quotes here are from this article and were checked with Liu’s office.

Big state companies can
…: As well as a personal interview with Zhou, this quote is from www.ftchinese.com, 16 May 2006.

Whereas Chalco had an interest
…: See
Caijing
, 20 August 2004.

In 2008, the Party
…: The entrepreneur who gave me this account asked not to be named or identified in any way.

Chapter 8 TOMBSTONE

When the first editions
…: The book is
Mubei: Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi
[
Tombstone: A Record of the Great Chinese Famine of the 60s
], Cosmos Books, Hong Kong, 2008.

It went without saying
…: The Wuhan ban was mentioned during a question-and-answer session with Yang at the Beijing Sanwei bookstore on 13 December 2008.

As the author Jasper Becker
…: Jasper Becker,
Hungry Ghosts
, John Murray, 1996.

In 2003, the Chinese government
…: SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

The museum director
…: I met Pan in 2001. The display about modern Shanghai had not changed when I last visited the museum in 2004.

The major content
…: See Lu Hao, ‘Promoting the Glorious Tradition of Patriotism Among Young People’,
People’s Daily
, 17 April 2009.

The propaganda department’s
…:
People’s Daily
, 9 September 2002.

In China, the head of
…:
Nanfang Zhoumo
[
Southern Weekend
], 3 August 2006.

As late as 2006
…: See Chapter 4 in David Shambaugh,
China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation
, University of California Press, 2008.

The exhibit was illustrated
…: Li Ruigang has told this story to at least two people who relayed it to the author.

When China introduced
…: Some new notes were issued to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, featuring drawings of Olympics sports venues.

Mao, along with
…:
New York Times
, 1 September 2006.

After going through the
…: The translation of Yuan’s article comes from the EastSouthWestNorth website, 26 January 2006 (www.zonaeuropa.com). I also interviewed Yuan, Li and other senior staff of
Freezing Point
in early 2008.

Yuan focused on
…: This event was depicted, from a decidedly western perspective, in the Hollywood movie,
55 Days in Peking
.

To this day
…: Judith Banister presented a paper in 1984 in Beijing estimating 30 million excess deaths. (Charles Louis Kincannon and Judith Banister, ‘Perspectives on China’s 1982 Census’, in
A Census of One Billion People
, Beijing, Population Census Office under the State Council and Department of Population Statistics of the State Statistical Bureau, 1986, pp. 288–312.) She based her calculation on China’s three post-1949 censuses, in 1953, 1964 and 1982, and what she described to me in an email as ‘a superb nationwide retrospective fertility survey’. She said many in the audience ‘expressed disbelief’ in her figures at the time.

But so far
…: As of October 2009, Yang has not been formally punished over the book.

He said later
…: Quoted in the
Sydney Morning Herald
, 19 January 2009.

Afterword

In the days
…:
South China Morning Post
, 12 October 2009.

David Shambaugh
…: Needless to say, the comparison with the athlete is mine, not Shambaugh’s.

Since 1982
…: Carnegie Endowment Policy Brief, No. 55, October 2007.

The leadership’s awareness
…: ‘Making the News Fit to Print’,
China Journal
, March 2009.

In 2007, personal
…:
Financial Times
, 23 September 2009.

In the words of
…: See Barmé’s speech at the Australian National University, ‘Mirrors of History: On a Sino-Japanese Moment and Some Antecedents’, delivered on 5 May 2005.

The biggest contribution
…:
Huanqiu Shibao
[
Global Times
], 2 October 2009.

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Abe, Shinzo, 271–2

academia, focus of, 18–19

Africa, xv

AIDs campaigners, 3

airports, 19

All-China Federation for Industry and Commerce, 79

All-China Federation of Trade Unions, 213–14

All-China Lawyers’ Association, 189, 190

Aluminium Company of China, 57–61, 62, 224–6

aluminium sector, 219, 224–6

Amway, 210, 211, 212–13

Anhui

beauty contest, 176

famine, 258–9

party chiefs and Idiot Seeds, 195

anti-graft body
see
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

anti-Japanese protests, 270–72

anti-secession law, 129

arms race, 106

Ashton, Catherine, xvi

Asian financial meltdown, 45

Atrophy and Adaptation
(Shambaugh), 266

Australia, xv

Avon Lady, 210, 211, 213

Baidu, 187

Banister, Judith, 260, 292n

Bank of China, 50, 53, 158

Bank of Communications, 52–3

banknotes, 244

banks, xi

Party’s role in, 51, 52–3

reform, 50

response to global financial crisis, 68

status of, 204

see also
individual banks

Baoshan Steel negotiations, 54–5

Barmé, Geremie, 242, 245, 271

Basel II, 67

beauty contest, 176

Becker, Jasper, 232

Beijing

mayors, 16, 144, 168

new airport, 19

Olympics, 170–71, 186

Beijing Hotel gathering, 34, 35, 38–40

Beijing University, centenary, 79, 80

Bentham, Jeremy, 17

BHP-Billiton, 58, 59

‘big-headed babies’, 183, 184–5

black-collar class, 140–41

Bo Zhiyue, 121

Boao Forum, ix–xi

Bodyguard Bureau, 12

Bond, Sir John, 52–3

Boxer rebellion, 250

Brady, Anne-Marie, 236, 268

bribery/corruption, 75, 93–100, 138–41, 172, 183, 191, 267

see also
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Burns, John, 80, 81

Bush, George Snr., 43

Caijing

on bankers, 68–9

Guo Shuqing’s interview, 51

on Rio-Tinto bid, 60

on Shanghai corruption cases, 161

car number-plates, of Party officials, 14

car sales, 2009, xvi

Casino Royale
(film), 238

Catholic Church, 11–12

CCTV, 185, 250

cell-phones, 39

censuses, 258–9

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, 137–8

beneficiaries of, 147

failing of, 145–7

investigation procedure, 142–5, 168–9

on Shanghai corruption cases, 160–61, 164–6, 167–9

structure and staffing, 141–2

Central Committee, 12

Central Committee Taiwan Work Leading Small Group, 21

Central Guards Unit, 12

Central Military Commission, 107

Central Organization Department, 17

appointment and promotion, 81, 82–3

and ethnic minorities and other parties, 79

internal tension, 74–6

invisibility, 71–2, 73, 74, 280n

against local authority, 90–93

members’ files, 77–8

nature of, 69

origin and historical background, 76–7

on Party’s disaster relief, 192–3

refined and tightened, 41

and state enterprises, 46, 72–4, 84–9

see also nomenklatura
system

Central Party School, 226–8

Central Politics and Law Committee, 25, 189, 190

Central Propaganda Department, 17, 229

media control, 184, 186, 237, 248–9;
see also
media, censorship

military propaganda, 121–2

reinforced, 41

roles of, 235–7, 248–52, 253

in Sanlu case, 189

Taiwan mission, 122

centrally planned economy, metaphor for, 37

CEOs, 89

reshuffled, 84–5

status symbol, 8–9, 10

stock options of, 100–103

Chai Junyong, 164

Chan, Hon, 80, 81

Changchun

Chen’s trial in, 166

corruption cases, 139

Changzhou, 220–22

Charter 08, 261–2

Chen Ailian, 5

Chen Deming, 83–4

Chen Jinhua, 55

Chen Liangyu, 135, 136, 161

background, 155–6

confronts Wen Jiabao, 163–4

defends Shanghai, 151

investigation on, 138, 164–6

trial and prison life, 166

Chen Shui-bian, 124

Chen Tonghai, 64

Chen Xiaodan, 65–6

Chen Xitong, 144, 168

Chen Yuan, 40, 64–5, 66

on communism, 34, 37

daughter of, 65–6

ideas of, 38–9

Chen Yun, 37–8, 200, 239

Chen Zhili, 140

Cheung, Steven, 41, 176–7

children, poisoned by milk powder, 172, 183, 184, 185, 186

China Construction Bank

corruption cases, 145–6

mass lay-offs, 50

Party’s role in, 51, 52

China Development Bank, 59, 65

China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong, 29, 30

China Inc.
see
state enterprises China Investment Corporation, x–xi

China Mobile, 84, 85, 101

China National Petroleum Corp.
see
PetroChina

China Netcom, 84, 86–8

China People’s Political Consultative

Conference, 204

China Pudong Cadre College, 29, 30

China Telecom, 84, 87

China Unicom, 84, 85

China Youth Daily
, 248, 250–51

Chinalco, 57–61, 62, 224–6

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 109

Chongqing, corruption cases, 139

Clinton, Hillary, xiv–xv

CLSA, 199

CNOOC, 54, 62

Cole, Bud, 121

communism, 18, 35, 76

redefined, 34, 37

Confucius, 32–3

congress
see
National People’s Congress

corruption
see
bribery/corruption COSCO, 102

cover-up strategy, 233–4

Crillon Ball, 66

Cultural Revolution, 14

launching of, 149

Party’s verdict, 234, 245

Dai Bingguo, xii, 277n

Dai Guofang, 220–21, 222, 223

dairy industry, 181–2, 183
see also
Sanlu

Dalai Lama, xvi

Dandong, 174–5

Daqing, 113, 115

decentralization, 177–8

defence budget, 111–12

democracy

Chinese leader’s interpretation, 20

demand of, 31, 261

pro-democracy protests
see
Tiananmen Square massacre in Taiwan, 123–4, 125, 126, 128, 130

democratic parties, 15

Dench, Dame Judi, 238

Deng Xiaoping, 74, 239

on Idiot Seeds, 195

image of, 6

as leader of liberalizers, 34

on Mao, 245