The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (46 page)

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

Shenzhen

corruption cases, 181

Deng’s tour to, 41

Shijiazhuang, 174

Shirk, Susan, 129

shuanggui
(double regulation), 142–3

Sichuan

corruption cases, 139

earthquake, 192

Singapore

COSCO in, 102

Suzhou industrial park, 83

Sinified Marxism, 67

Sinology, 18–19

Sinopec, 63–4

society, infiltrates Party, 30

Song Ping, 36

Song Xiaojun, 119–20, 125, 132

southern tour, 41

Southern Weekend
, 185–6

Soviet Union

disintegration of, 35, 131

nomenklatura
system, 78, 79

Orgburo, 76

Party’s verdict on collapse of, 237–8

succession, 154

Stalin, Joseph, 76

Standing Committee, 13, 278–9n

above corruption investigation, 147

Shanghai gang in, 154

state assets

debates over, 40

Deng’s model on, 42

new conservatives on, 35, 39

state enterprises

competition and profitability, 53–6

Deng’s model on, 42

new conservatives on, 39

Party’s low profile in, 21–2, 49

pay structure for CEOs, 102–3

personnel control of, 46, 68–9, 73–4, 84–9

reform, 44, 67–8

split personalities of, 53, 64

stock options, 100–101

tax from, 267

workers lay-offs, 42–3, 50

see also
individual enterprises

steel industry, 220, 221, 222

Stewart, Jackie, 162

Storming the Barricades
(Zhou Tianyong), 69

students

loans, 173

money worship, 133

view of Party, 31–2

Su Shulin, 64

Su Zhiliang, 245, 246

Sudan, 62

Suihua, 97–9, 116

Sun Jingkan, 160

Suzhou, 83

corruption cases, 139–40

Tai lake (Taihu), 89, 90, 91–2

Taiwan issue

Jiang and Hu’s policies, 106–7, 127–30, 134

nationalist stand on, 131–2

nature of, 122–3

one-China policy, 127–8

Taiwanese opinions, 125–8

see also
Kuomintang

Tang Dynasty (ad 618–907), official vetting, 77

tax policy, 178, 179

telecommunication, 233–4

telecoms companies, 84–9

terror, 265

textbook censorship, 249–50

Thatcher, Margaret, 202

38th Army, 109–10

Thornton, John, 88

Tian, Edward, 84, 86–9

Tian Fengshan, 98

Tian Wenhua

charged, 172

downfall, 188

dual responsibility dilemma, 186

leads emergency meeting, 171

titles of, 182–3

trial and charge, 190–91

Tiananmen Square massacre, 105, 253, 262