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  • Chapter 5 - Corrupt and Competent

  • Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    China's Gilded Age
    Published online:
    08 May 2020
    Print publication:
    28 May 2020, pp 119-152

  • 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.