Abstract
Lecturer Ling Li from the University of Vienna will process-trace Xi Jinping’s campaign in 2012-2017 and explain how an anticorruption campaign has transformed into a power-consolidation feat. The findings are three-fold.
First, the power-consolidation process has benefited from the combination of an ideological campaign and a disciplinary campaign, which are not only synchronized but also feed into one another to achieve a shared goal.
Second, the campaign became politicized around midterm and intensified afterwards. The progress of the campaign coincides with Xi Jinping’s advancement of power.
Third, the more significant outcome of Xi Jinping’s campaign is not the numbers of disciplined corrupt officials but the paradigm-change of the disciplinary regime of the Party: first, the reverse of the depoliticization process of the Party’s disciplinary regime; and second, the retention of temporarily mobilized anticorruption resources, which will multiply the CCDI’s anticorruption investigative capacities and significantly increase Xi Jinping’s leverage to impose political loyalty and compliance upon Party officials in the future.
About the Speaker
LING LI
University of Vienna
External lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, where she has also served as a visiting professor during 2015-2016. Prior to coming to Vienna, she was a senior research fellow at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of
Law during 2010-2015.
Her main area of research interest is Chinese politics and law with a particular focus on the institutional features and development of the Chinese Communist Party (the Party). Her research is pivoted on questions such as how the Party regulates itself and what the power dynamics within the Party and between the Party and other institutional actors is.
This seminar is brought to you by the UBC Centre for Asian Legal Studies.
A light lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to cals@allard.ubc.ca.
