Assessing Xi Jinping’s Anti-corruption Fight: Views From Five Scholars

Written by Minxin Pei

Organized And Compiled By

Minxin Pei

Abstract: Official corruption in the post-Tiananmen era is marked by systematic looting of state-owned assets, widespread abuse of power, and utter lawlessness. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has launched an unrelenting campaign to root out corruption in the party-state. We invite five distinguished scholars — an economist, a sociologist, an anthropologist, and two political scientists — to analyze the causes and manifestations of corruption in contemporary China and evaluate the consequences and prospects of Xi’s anti-corruption.

Keywords: corruption, regime survival, anticorruption campaign, crony capitalism, elite disunity.

Moderator of the Roundtable Discussion:

Minxin Pei, Professor, Claremont McKenna College

Participants of the Roundtable Discussion:

Dingxin Zhao, Professor, University of Chicago
Zhiwu Chen, Professor, Yale University
Ting Gong, Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Yunxiang Yan, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Jiangnan Zhu, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

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