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... the World's Largest One-Party State by Reforming Its Officials?” Atlantic , April 7, 2015. 1 Edward Wong, “New Communist Party Chief in China Denounces Corruption in Speech,” New York Times, November 19, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/asia/new-communist-party-chief-in-china...

...Julia Kwong Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China . By Andrew Wedeman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2012 . xiii, 257 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 In his book Double Paradox...

...Bruce Dickson Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong . By Melanie Manion . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2004 . x , 283 pp. $52.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 808 T H E J O U R N A L O F...

...Nancy Park Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party . By Xiaobo Lü . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2000 . xviii , 368 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 223...

...Saeed Shafqat Public Office, Private Interest: Bureaucracy and Corruption in India . By S. K. Das . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2001 . 252 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1085 interest...

...Weijie Song Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel . By Jeffrey C. Kinkley . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2007 . viii , 304 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In his...

...Nancy E. Park Abstract Eighteenth-century chinese commentators were eloquent on the subject of official corruption, characterizing it as one of the greatest scourges on the Qing state and society. Xu Wenbi (n.d.), in an administrative handbook based on his experiences as magistrate of Yongchuan...

...Anubha Anushree A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent . By Sudhir Chella Rajan . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2020 . 365 pp. ISBN: 9780674241275 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Despite...

...Robert N. Weiss Corruption in China during the Early Ch'ing Period, 1644–1660 . By Adam Y. C. Lui . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong (Centre for Asian Studies, Occasional Papers and Monographs No. 39), 1979 . v, 86 pp. Appendix, Bibliography. HK$22. Copyright © The Association...

... on democracy and waste control. Relying on the idea of “purity” (jôka), these women gendered the discourse of democracy along the divide of “pure” women and “impure” men, and succeeded, to a certain extent, in eliminating corrupt officials from the Tokyo prefectural and city assemblies. Yet their efforts...

...Aditya Balasubramanian Abstract This essay studies the evolution of India's anticorruption machinery and discourses of corruption from the 1940s to the 1960s as a tussle between the logics of bureaucracy and democracy playing out as part of decolonization. Anticorruption began as a way...

... for the change. He stated: “Looking back over the past decade, one can see that the Ministry of Education, situated in the midst of the corrupt atmosphere of Peking, was infected by the government agencies around it. There were times when those who headed the Ministry knew nothing about scholarship and education...

... that the coal be returned to Kazakhstan; allegations of corruption and arrests of Kyrgyz officials ensued. Political wrangling over responsibility and refunds meant that negotiations between Kazakh and Kyrgyz authorities took more than a year to complete. Finally, Kazakhstan allowed the coal to be returned...

... governments led by magistrates who were chosen in a deliberative yet corruptible process. The construction and uses of the empire's mental map demonstrates the merits and vicissitudes accompanying the still ongoing Chinese practice of differentiated local government. By 1800, most appointments were...

...”—a network that had dominated electoral politics in the previous thirteen years, in the PDRC's view through corruption and vote-buying. To fight this injustice, the PDRC had called for deep constitutional reforms before the next elections could be held. Since the 1970s, democratic openings had alternated...

.... The rebellion has been interpreted variously as a peasant uprising against official corruption, a protest against intolerable economic distress, or simply a nationalistic revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Be that as it may, there is general agreement that it was a movement unique in Chinese history because...

...' ability to protest corrupt practices and safeguard their internal democracy. These ambiguities emerged as new democratic laws implemented in 1992 and 1995 to decentralize power conflicted with older laws dating from the days of absolute monarchy. Subsequent legal reforms appear to have mitigated...

... political voice through one ubiquitous yet understudied local institution, the pre-mortem shrine. Meant to express gratitude to good magistrates and prefects moving on to other positions, the shrines were suspect as flattering an official in hopes of return favors. To forestall accusations of such corrupt...

... personality cults over the Internet and through media spin. It discusses widespread corruption in literary reviewing; the weaknesses in editorial standards that affect the work of even the most mature voices writing today; and the fluid way in which novelists often abandon fiction for other professions...

..., military imperative, political conflict, economic dislocation, and corruption that caused these famines. But famine mortality is also a function of the effectiveness of the relief system. The famines in China and, to a lesser extent, Vietnam, occurred in times of administrative disruption. During...