The CCP's Fifteenth Congress: Technocrats in Command

Issues and Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-37

  Shambaugh, David ^a  

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Author keywords

Chinese Communist Party; Corruption; Elite politics; Personnel; State industrial restructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040340693     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. "Qiao Shi 'Retired' by Scheming Party Veterans," South China Morning Post, September 20, 1997.
2. For a detailed discussion of the role of "leading groups" in the Chinese policy process, see Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
3. Matt Forney, "Rot All Over," Far Eastern Economic Review, October 2, 1997, 22.
4. "Discipline Inspection Commission Circular on Anti-Corruption," BBC, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, September 27, 1997, S2/2.
5. This includes: Jiang Zemin (Shanghai Jiaotong University, electrical engineering); Li Peng (Moscow Power Institute, hydroelectric power generation); Zhu Rongji (Qinghua University, electrical engineering); Li Ruihuan (Civil Engineering Institute, architecture); Hu Jintao (Qinghua University, hydraulic engineering); Wei Jianxing (Dalian Institute of Engineering, mechanical engineering); Li Lanqing (Fudan University, industrial management); Ding Guan'gen (Jiaotong University, railway transport); Li Changchun (Harbin Industrial University, electrical engineering); Li Tieying (Charles University, Prague, physics); Wu Guanzheng (Qinghua University, systems dynamics); Chi Haotian (Nanjing Military Academy); Zhang Wannian (Nanjing Military Academy); Luo Gan (Frieberg University, geology and mining); Jia Qinglin (Hebei Engineering College, electrical engineering); Huang Ju (Qinghua University, electrical engineering); Wen Jiabao (Beijing Geology Institute, geology); Zeng Qinghong (Beijing Engineering Institute, automation); Wu Yi (Beijing Petroleum Institute, degree unknown).
6. See my "China's Commander-in-Chief: Jiang Zemin and the PLA," in Chinese Military Modernization, ed. C. Dennison Lane, Mark Weisenbloom, and Dimon Liu (London and Washington: Kegan Paul International and AEI Press, 1996).
7. The full text of this speech has not been released, but excerpts were provided in "Upholding the Banner of Deng's Theory," Beijing Review, August 25-31, 1997, 10-13.
8. See, for example, Gaoxing Deng Xiaoping lilun weida qizhi shengli qianjin: Xuexi dang de shiwuda huiyi jingshen (Victoriously march forward celebrating the banner of Deng Xiaoping theory: Study the spirit of the Party's Fifteenth Congress) (Beijing: Xinhuashe, 1997).
9. As reported in Matt Forney, "Private Party," Far Eastern Economic Review, September 20, 1997, 20.
10. All quotations from Jiang's report are taken from the official Xinhua News Agency version "Hold High the Great Banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory for an All-Round Advancement of the Cause of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics to the Twenty-First Century," released by Xinhua on September 12, 1997.
11. It is not clear in the nomenclature of Communist Chinese lexicon if "Deng theory" (lilun) ranks higher, lower, or equal to "Mao thought" (sixiang) or Marxism-Leninism (zhuyi).
12. As quoted in Steven Mufson, "China's Ex-Leader Zhao Surfaces, Urges Political Reforms," Washington Post, September 15, 1997.
13. "Beijing Firm on Tiananmen," Financial Times, September 18, 1997.
14. "Jiang Zemin Reprimands Zhao Ziyang," Pingguo ribao (Hong Kong), October 27, 1997, in SWE/FE, October 28, 1997, G/11.
15. "Jiang Zemin Reprimands Zhao Ziyang," Pingguo ribao (Hong Kong), October 27, 1997, in SWE/FE, October 28, 1997, G/11.
16. Steven Mufson, "Communist China's Dilemma: Labor Strife," Washington Post, September 10, 1997.
17. Ibid.
18. Personal communication.