Book contents
- China’s Gilded Age
- China’s Gilded Age
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction: China’s Gilded Age
- Chapter 2 Unbundling Corruption across Countries
- Chapter 3 Unbundling Corruption over Time
- Chapter 4 Profit-Sharing, Chinese-Style
- Chapter 5 Corrupt and Competent
- Chapter 6 All the King’s Men
- Chapter 7 Rethinking Nine Big Questions
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Chapter 5 - Corrupt and Competent
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2020
- China’s Gilded Age
- China’s Gilded Age
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction: China’s Gilded Age
- Chapter 2 Unbundling Corruption across Countries
- Chapter 3 Unbundling Corruption over Time
- Chapter 4 Profit-Sharing, Chinese-Style
- Chapter 5 Corrupt and Competent
- Chapter 6 All the King’s Men
- Chapter 7 Rethinking Nine Big Questions
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 turns to national and local leaders. Profit-sharing among leaders follows a different logic: the more economically prosperous the locality, the more personal rents they can collect as massive graft. By unpacking the career paths of two infamously fallen officials – Bo Xilai (provincial Party secretary of Chongqing) and Ji Jianye (city mayor of Nanjing) – this chapter reveals why deal-making corruption was compatible with aggressive growth promotion. It also fleshes out the structural distortions and risks brought about by access money.
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- China's Gilded AgeThe Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, pp. 119 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020