The anti-corruption struggle in Xi Jinping’s China: an alternative political narrative

TY - JOUR

T1 - The anti-corruption struggle in Xi Jinping’s China

T2 - an alternative political narrative

AU - Brown, Kerry

PY - 2018/2/15

Y1 - 2018/2/15

N2 - The fact that the extensive anti-corruption struggle that has consumed China since 2013 is highly political is widely accepted and understood. But the question is precisely what political strategy it is directed at – that of bolstering the position of the current supreme leader, Xi Jinping. Or for the preservation of the Party itself. There is a huge difference between these. The first simply means in effect the replacement of one corruptible elite by another. The second means a titanic struggle to change the Chinese communist party culture of power, and to make it enduring and sustainable.

AB - The fact that the extensive anti-corruption struggle that has consumed China since 2013 is highly political is widely accepted and understood. But the question is precisely what political strategy it is directed at – that of bolstering the position of the current supreme leader, Xi Jinping. Or for the preservation of the Party itself. There is a huge difference between these. The first simply means in effect the replacement of one corruptible elite by another. The second means a titanic struggle to change the Chinese communist party culture of power, and to make it enduring and sustainable.

U2 - 10.1080/03068374.2018.1416008

DO - 10.1080/03068374.2018.1416008

M3 - Article

SN - 0306-8374

VL - 49

JO - Asian Affairs

JF - Asian Affairs

IS - 1

ER -