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A14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 Concern About Stability Gives Chinese Officials Leeway to Crush Dissent

By MICHAEL WINES even reward local leaders for do- Neither action by the local au- LINYI, China — The central ing so. The reason is that their thorities was legal. “They used government says that the activist Communist Party careers de- the justification of the one-child Chen Guangcheng is a free man, pend on meeting a series of per- policy and stability mainte- and has promised him an investi- formance goals — from high eco- nance,” said Pu Zhiqiang, a gation of the harrowing abuses nomic growth to low levels of prominent human rights lawyer. he suffered at the hands of public unrest — whose impor- After the detention generated guards here. Mr. Chen’s desper- tance far outweigh any gold stars international headlines, Mr. Co- ate escape last month from per- awarded for following the law. hen said, the public security min- secution to American protection That system gives leaders an ister sent emissaries to Shan- has embarrassed China’s leaders incentive to silence troublemak- dong to discuss the case. Later, in and cast new shadows on their ers by any means in order to win 2006, Mr. Chen was convicted and commitment to the rule of law. high marks for maintaining pub- imprisoned on what experts said But a visit to this municipality lic stability, one of the most im- were trumped-up charges, and in eastern China, where Mr. Chen portance performance metrics. It his detention gained a legal basis. and his family most recently can uncork gushers of money for But when he was released from spent 20 months as prisoners in added security measures to keep prison in September 2010, Mr. their own home, offers no hint of control of a high-profile activist Chen again found himself and his a change in the way China deals like Mr. Chen. family sealed inside their village with its dissidents. And it can pay off for the local home, this time surrounded by a Journalists who sought on Sun- leaders who do the job well. The cordon of fences and security day to talk to residents a few hun- man Mr. Chen has blamed most equipment and a contingent of dred yards from Dongshigu, the for his detention and imprison- guards around the clock. village in Linyi where Mr. Chen ment is Li Qun, who was mayor For the layers of government was held captive, were quickly of Linyi from 2003 to 2007. Just a overseeing Dongshigu, Mr. escorted out by thugs in four few years before that, Mr. Li was Chen’s destitute, remote village, cars, and later were accosted in a studying public administration at detention has become a lucrative burst of arm-wrenching and the University of New Haven and industry. Mr. Chen has claimed name-calling. an intern to the New Haven may- ED JONES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES that his captors told him it cost or, John DeStefano Jr. about $9.5 million annually to Members of the same gang still Security guards barred reporters from seeing Chen Guangcheng at a Beijing hospital on May 4. keep Mr. Chen’s mother under Mr. Li has since been promoted keep him under house arrest. siege here. Mr. Chen’s nephew to party secretary of Shandong’s The target of that smothering faces a charge of attempted mur- biggest port, Qingdao, and he sits all the other local officials that the tool of choice to deal with dis- security is now in a Beijing hospi- der after he slashed a knife at on the province’s Communist A system geared to there’s a different way of doing sidents and troublemakers. tal, preparing to move with his plainclothes officers who invaded Party standing committee, its allowing local leaders things now. And that would be a A self-taught lawyer who is wife and daughter to the United his home and beat him. Lawyers highest ruling body. very fundamental change.” blind, Mr. Chen crusaded for so- States to study law. But the costly seeking to defend the nephew Only when local measures to ignore the law. A serious inquiry also would cial justice in his native Shan- crackdown continues unabated. have been ordered to drop the blow up into national or global send a signal that when enough dong Province, and in the pro- Outside Dongshigu, police case or face retribution. embarrassments, as they have in publicity and pressure is brought cess imperiled party officials’ vans dot the highway, their lights There is no evidence that the Mr. Chen’s case, is the central hen said. “I can tell you that there to bear, the Communist Party can record not only on keeping order, flashing, and carloads of plain- be forced to change. but also on another important clothes guards roam side roads, government in Beijing ordered government obliged to step in are thousands of cases like this.” this harassment, all of which is il- and order face-saving measures “The main problem with Bei- measure: enforcing the one-child their license plates sometimes To those who study the system, legal under Chinese law. But like investigations. In countless jing is that very often, they con- population-control policy. covered in camouflage cloth. its success makes it unlikely that there is also no any indication other instances, the experts say, done injustices even though they In August 2005, after he began On Sunday, when journalists that Beijing wants it to stop. Beijing quietly tolerates local offi- party leaders will use the embar- know that the local authorities a deftly publicized campaign to sought to visit Mr. Chen’s home In fact, both rights activists cials’ lawlessness, and they do so rassment of the Chen episode to are in the wrong,” said Nicholas help citizens sue the local govern- in Dongshigu, about 33 miles and legal experts say, the system for a simple reason: with rare ex- push for changes that could Bequelin of Human Rights Watch ment over forced late-term abor- from Linyi, they were quickly for dealing with dissidents and ceptions, the system is exceed- themselves prove destabilizing. in Hong Kong. “But many of the tions and sterilizations, the re- and roughly escorted away by se- other troublemakers is geared to- ingly efficient at stifling unrest. “It would have implications not problems that come up in these action was swift: a mob sur- curity guards in plain clothes. ward allowing local leaders to ig- Jerome Cohen, a law professor just in one city or one county, but cases are not isolated — they’re rounded Mr. Chen’s village home, Later, in Yinan, the county seat, nore the law, with Beijing’s some- at New York University and an for the entire country,” Fu Hual- endemic. And Beijing fears that trapping the family inside for one man attacked a photogra- times silent assent. adviser to Mr. Chen, said he was ing, a law professor at Hong backing down on one case would weeks. Foreshadowing the pher who was recording a report- The central government may told by a prominent Chinese Kong University, said in an in- open the floodgates.” events of this spring, Mr. Chen er’s attempt to question him. criminal lawyer that cases like terview. “This is how they govern Mr. Chen’s case, one of the few and a nephew eventually escaped “Get out of China,” the man Shi Da contributed research from Mr. Chen’s were not unusual. the population. If you punish the to get prolonged public scrutiny, to Beijing, only to be seized there yelled at a Chinese news assist- Dongshigu, China, and Edy Yin “They’re only unusual because local government, if you dismiss offers some insights into the in- and returned home by police offi- ant. “You’re not Chinese. You’re from Beijing. you know about them,” Mr. Co- the officials, then you have to tell centives that make repression cers sent from Shandong. a traitor.” In Economic Rise, China’s ‘Princelings’ Learn to Cash In on Their Family Ties

From Page A1 Power and Profit official, helped Merrill Lynch win Family members of many high-ranking officials have profited enormously from China's economic boom, a deal to arrange the $22 billion often through businesses tied to the state. Below, some top Party leaders, and important relatives. public listing of the giant state- run bank I.C.B.C., in what be- came the world’s largest initial public stock offering. Much of the income earned by families of senior leaders may be entirely legal. But it is all but im- possible to distinguish between legitimate and ill-gotten gains be- cause there is no public disclo- HU JINTAO WEN JIABAO JIANG ZEMIN LI PENG WU BANGGUO sure of the wealth of officials and China's president Prime minister Former president Former prime minister China's top legislator their relatives. Conflict-of-inter- est laws are weak or nonexistent. And the business dealings of the political elite are heavily cen- sored in the state-controlled Hu Haifeng Wen Yunsong Zhang Beili Jiang Mianheng Alvin Jiang Li Xiaolin Li Xiaopeng Feng Shaodong news media. Son Son Wife Son Grandson Daughter Son Son-in-law The spoils system, for all the efforts to keep a lid on it, poses a Served as party Mr. Wen’s son, also According to a Partly controls Announced plans Chairwoman and Former chairman Also known as fundamental challenge to the le- secretary to known as Winston U.S. State Shanghai Alliance to raise $1 billion chief executive of of a state- Wilson Feng, he is gitimacy of the Communist Party. Tsinghua Holdings, Wen, is the Department Investments, a for his investment China Power controlled power the general As the state’s business has be- an umbrella chairman of the cable, she state-backed fund, Boyu International, the company until manager of a come increasingly intertwined company, from late state-owned China controls part of company that Capital, which was flagship of one of 2008; now vice nuclear power with a class of families some- 2008 to 2009. Satellite the precious invested in a formed with a China’s big five governor of Shanxi investment fund times called the Red Nobility, an- Before that, he was Communications gems market. Microsoft joint former executive power generating Province. established by the alysts say the potential exists for president of a Corporation and venture and in from TPG, the companies. state-owned a backlash against an increas- state-controlled firm the co-founder of China Netcom, as American private Guangdong ingly entrenched elite. They also that made scanners New Horizon, a big well as a recent equity giant. Nuclear Power point to the risk that national pol- to detect contraband private equity firm. DreamWorks deal. Holding icies may be subverted by lead- or dangerous Corporation. ers and former leaders, many of materials. whom exert influence long after THE NEW YORK TIMES their retirement, acting to protect their own interests. closure reports remain secret; want to implement reform, their that Zeng Wei, the son of China’s selves. “The party has said an- munist Party promising to over- Chinese officials and their rela-seniorproposals leaders tomay make be thementirely public legal.children But mightit is say, ‘Dad,Worried what aboutformer the vice appearance president Zeng of Qing- impropriticorruption- efforts are a life-and- haul the nation’s media and cul- tives rarely discuss such a all del- buthave impossible been shelved to repeatedly distinguish by betweenabout my business?’” le- ety and growinghong, public bought disgust a $32 millionwith official man- cordeath- issue,” Mr. Li said. “But if tural industries, the relatives of the party-controlled legislature. sion in Sydney, Australia — are they want to clean house, it may China’s political elite are at the icate issue publicly. The Newgitimate and ill-gotten gains becauseThere there are is also ruption, growing con-the Communist Party has repeatedly York Times made repeated at- The party is unlikely to move cerns that a culture of nepotism ignored by the Chinese-language be fatal.” head of the crowd scrambling for tempts to reach public officialsno publicmore disclosure aggressively of because the wealth fam- and of privilegeofficials nurtured revised at the its top ethicsnews codes media and and tightened blocked by financial In- Chinese tycoons have also footholds in a new frontier. and their relatives for this article,and theirilies ofrelatives. high-ranking Conflict-of-interest past and cur- of the laws system are hasdisclosure flowed down- rules.ternet In itscensors. latest iteration, the partybeen quietly welcomed into the The February announcement often through their companies.weak orrent nonexistent. officials are now And deeply the businessem- ward, dealings permeating in bureaucracies 2010 requiredAllegations all officials of briberyto report and cor-the jobs,families of senior leaders, often of the deal between DreamWorks None of those reached agreed to bedded in the economic fabric of ruption against the nation’s top through secret partnerships in and three Chinese partners, in- of the political elite are heavily censoredat every in levelthe of governmentwhereabouts in and investments of their spouses comment on the record. the nation. Over the past two dec- China. “After a while you realize, leaders typically follow — rather which the sons, daughters, cluding Shanghai Alliance Invest- DreamWorks and Microsoftstate-controlledades, business news and media. politics have wow, there are actuallyand children, a lot of asthan well precede as their — a fallown from incomes. politi- Butspouses and close relatives act as ment, was timed to coincide with declined to comment about their Thebecome spoils so system, tightly for intertwined, all the effortsprincelings to keep out there,”the said disclosure Victor calreports grace. remain Mr. Bo’s secret; downfall proposals this middlemen or co-investors in real the high-profile visit to the Unit- relationship with Mr. Jiang. a lid onthey it, say, poses that a the fundamental Communist challengeShih, a China to scholarto make at North- them spring,public forhave instance, been shelved came after repeatestate- projects or other deals that ed States of Xi Jinping, China’s A secret United States State Party has effectively institution- western University near Chicago, his former police chief in Chong- need government approval or vice president and presumptive the legitimacyalized an entire of the ecosystem Communist of cro- Party. As the edly by the party-controlledqing told American legislature. diplomats backing, according to investors next president. The news release Department cable from 2009, re- using the label commonly ny capitalism. “They don’t want that Mr. Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, had who have been involved in such did not mention that Shanghai Al- leased two years ago by the Wiki-state’s business has become increasinglyslapped interon descendants- The of party party is unlikely to move more aggres- to bring this into the open,” said ordered the murder of Neil Hey- transactions. liance is partly controlled by Mr. Leaks project, cited reports twined that with a class of families sometimesleaders. called “You’ve gotsively the children because families of high-ranking past Roderick MacFarquhar, a China wood, a British businessman, in a Moreover, China’s leading po- Jiang, the son of a former presi- China’s ruling elite had carved up of current officials, the children of the country’s economic pie.the At Redspecialist Nobility, at Harvard analysts University. say the potential ex- and current officialsdispute are over now the deeply family’s embedded busi- litical families, often through in- dent, Jiang Zemin. A person who the same time, many companiesists for“It woulda backlash be a tsunami.” against an in theness economic interests. fabric of the nation.termediaries, hold secret shares answered the telephone at the openly boast that their ties toincreasingly the Critics entrenched charge that powerfulelite. OverEvidence the past hastwo surfaceddecades, of business at in dozens of companies, including Shanghai Alliance office here de- political elite give them a compet-They vestedalso point interests to the are nowrisk strongthat andleast politics $160 millionhave become in assets so held tightlymany that are publicly listed in clined to comment. itive advantage in China’s highly enough to block reforms that Fears of a backlash by close relatives of Bo Xilai, and Hong Kong, Shanghai and else- Zeng Qinghuai, the brother of regulated marketplace. nationalcould policies benefit the may larger be populace. sub- against a culture of intertwined,the authorities they are say, investigating that the Comwhere,- according to interviews Zeng Qinghong, China’s former A Chinese sportswear compa-vertedChanges by leaders in banking and and former financial munistwhether Party other hasassets effectively held by the instiwith- bankers and investment ad- vice president, is also in the film ny called Xidelong, for example,leaders,services, many for of instance, whom could exert af- ‘Red Nobility.’ tutionalizedfamily may an have entire been ecosystem secretly visers. of Lately, the progeny of the business. He served as a consult- fect the interests of the family of and illegally moved offshore. political elite have retooled the ant for the patriotic epic “Be- proudly informed some potentialinfluence long after their retire- crony capitalism. “They don’t want investors that one of its share- Zhu Rongji, China’s prime min- Wen Jiabao, the prime min- spoils system for a new era, mov- ginning of the Great Revival.” holders was the son of Wen ment, Jia- isteracting from to 1998 protect to 2003 their and oneown of to ister,bring responded this into by demandingthe open,” a saiding into high-finance ventures The film exemplified the hand-in- bao, according to one of theinterests. in- the architects of China’s econom- previous officials, theRoderick children MacFarquhar,of more forceful acrackdown China specialist on cor- like at private equity funds, where glove relationship between busi- vestors. (A private equity firm Chineseic system. officials His son, and Levin their Zhu, relativeslocal officials,rarely centralHarvard officials, University.ruption. “It Without would naming be a tsunami.” Mr. Bo the potential returns dwarf the ness and politics. It was shown Mr. Wen helped found, New Hori- joined China International Cap- military officers, police offi- by name, People’s Daily, the offi- benefits from serving as a mid- on nearly 90,000 movie screens zon, invested in the companydiscuss in ital such Corporation, a delicate one ofissue the coun-publicly.cials.We’re The New talking aboutCritics hun- chargecial Communistthat powerful Party vested newspa- interdleman- to government contracts across the country. Government 2009, according to Xidelong’sYork Timestry’s biggest made investment repeated banks, attemptsdreds to of reach thousands ests of people are nowout per,strong denounced enough fortune to block seekers reformsor holding an executive post at a offices and schools were ordered Web site.) “There are so manypublicin officials 1998 and and has servedtheir relatives as its chief forthere this article, — all trying that to usecould their benefitwho the stain larger the party’s populace. purity Changes by state monopoly. to buy tickets in bulk. The media ways to partner with the familiesoften executivethrough fortheir the pastcompanies. decade. Noneconnections of those to makein money.” banking andsmuggling financial ill-gotten services, gains for out instance, of Jeffrey Zeng, the son of the for- was banned from criticizing it. It of those in power,” said one fi- Efforts to open the power sec- To shore up confidence in the the country. mer Politburo member Zeng Pei- became one of last year’s top- nance executive who has workedreachedtor agreed to competition, to comment for example, on the record.government’s abilitycould to tackle affect the the Someinterests scholars of arguethe family that the of Zhuyan, is a managing partner at grossing films. with the relatives of senior lead- DreamWorkscould affect the andinterests Microsoft of rela- problem,declined high-rankingto Rongji, leaders China’sparty prime is nowminister hostage from to its1998 own to 2003Kaixin Investments, a venture- Scholars describe the film in- ers. “Just make them part of yourcommenttives aboutof Li Peng, their a formerrelationship prime withregularly Mr. inveigh Ji- againstand one greedy of theunholy architects alliances. of Cheng China’s Li, an economic ex- capital firm set up with two state- dustry as the new playground for deal; it’s perfectly legal.” minister. Li Xiaolin, his daughter, officials caught with their hand in pert on Chinese politics with the owned entities, China Develop- princelings. Zhang Xiaojin, direc- Worried about the appearanceang. is the chairwoman and chief ex- the till. In 2008, for system.instance, aHis for- son,Brookings Levin Zhu, Institution joined in China Wash- Interment- Bank and Citic Capital. Liu tor of the Center of Political De- of impropriety and growing pub- A ecutivesecret of United China Power States Interna- State Departmentmer Shanghai Partynational secretary, Capitalington, Corporation, said it would one be of difficult the counLefei,- the son of another Politbu- velopment at Tsinghua Universi- lic disgust with official corrup-cable tional,from 2009, the flagship released of one two of years the Chen ago Liangyu,by the wastry’s sentenced biggest to investmentfor the Chinese banks, government in 1998 and to hasro member, Liu Yunshan, helps ty, said, “There are cases where tion, the Communist Party WikiLeaks has big five project, power generating cited reports compa- that18 years China’s in prison forserved bribery as and its chiefpush executive through major for the political past re-decade.operate the $4.8 billion Citic Pri- propaganda ministry officials repeatedly revised its ethics nies in China. Her brother, Li abuse of power. One of his crimes forms aimed at extricating pow- vate Equity Fund, one of the big- specifically ask their children to codes and tightened financialruling dis- Xiaopeng, elite had was carved formerly up the the head country’swas pressing eco- businessmenEfforts to to openerful political the power families sector from tobusi- compegest- state-managed funds. Last make films which they then ap- closure rules. In its latest itera-nomicof pie. another At the big same power time, company manyfunnel companies benefits to tition, his close for rela- example,ness without could givingaffect immunity the interests to year, of Alvin Jiang, the grandson of prove.” tion, the party in 2010 requiredopenly all and boast is now that a public their official. ties to the politicaltives, including elite a relatives land deal thatof Lithose Peng, now a in former power. prime minister.former president Jiang Zemin, Zhao Xiao, an economist at the officials to report the jobs, where- “This is one of the most diffi- netted his brother, Chen Liang- And with no independent judi- helped establish Boyu Capital, a University of Science and Tech- abouts and investments of theirgive themcult challenges a competitive China faces,” advantage said jun, in a China’s$20 million profit.Li Xiaolin, his ciarydaughter, in China, is the he chairwoman said, party andprivate equity firm that is on its nology in Beijing, said, “They are spouses and children, as wellhighly as Mr. regulated Pei, an authority marketplace. on China’s But exposés inchief the executive foreign leaders of China would Power essentially International, be way to raising at least $1 billion. everywhere, as long as the in- their own incomes. But the dis- A leadership.Chinese sportswear “Whenever theycompanypress —called like the the report flagship in 2010 ofcharged one of with the investigating big five power them- genMost- recently, with the Com- dustry is profitable.” Xidelong, for example, proudly informed some erating companies in China. Her brother, Li potential investors that one of its shareholders Xiaopeng, was formerly the head of another big was the son of Wen Jiabao, according to one of power company and is now a public official. the investors. (A private equity firm, New Ho- “This is one of the most difficult challenges rizon, that the son, Wen Yunsong helped found China faces,” said Mr. Pei, an authority on Chi- invested in the company in 2009, according to na’s leadership. “Whenever they want to imple- Xidelong’s Web site.) “There are so many ways ment reform, their children might say, ‘Dad, to partner with the families of those in power,” what about my business?’ ” said one finance executive who has worked with There are also growing concerns that a cul- the relatives of senior leaders. “Just make them ture of nepotism and privilege nurtured at the part of your deal; it’s perfectly legal.” top of the system has flowed downward, perme- ating bureaucracies at every level of govern- an expert on Chinese politics with the Brook- ment in China. “After a while you realize, wow, ings Institution in Washington, said it would there are actually a lot of princelings out there,” be difficult for the Chinese government to push said Victor Shih, a China scholar at Northwest- through major political reforms aimed at extri- ern University near Chicago, using the label cating powerful political families from business commonly slapped on descendants of party without giving immunity to those now in power. leaders. “You’ve got the children of current of- And with no independent judiciary in Chi- ficials, the children of previous officials, the na, he said, party leaders would essentially be children of local officials, central officials, mili- charged with investigating themselves. “The tary officers, police officials.We’re talking about party has said anticorruption efforts are a life- hundreds of thousands of people out there — all and-death issue,” Mr. Li said. “But if they want trying to use their connections to make money.” to clean house, it may be fatal.” To shore up confidence in the government’s Chinese tycoons have also been quietly wel- ability to tackle the problem, high-ranking lead- comed into the families of senior leaders, often ers regularly inveigh against greedy officials through secret partnerships in which the sons, caught with their hand in the till. In 2008, for daughters, spouses and close relatives act as instance, a former Shanghai Party secretary, middlemen or co-investors in real estate proj- Chen Liangyu, was sentenced to 18 years in ects or other deals that need government ap- prison for bribery and abuse of power. One of proval or backing, according to investors who his crimes was pressing businessmen to funnel have been involved in such transactions. benefits to his close relatives, including a land Moreover, China’s leading political fami- deal that netted his brother, Chen Liangjun, a lies, often through intermediaries, hold se- $20 million profit. cret shares in dozens of companies, including But exposés in the foreign press — like the many that are publicly listed in Hong Kong, report in 2010 that Zeng Wei, the son of China’s Shanghai and elsewhere, according to inter- former vice president Zeng Qinghong, bought a views with bankers and investment advisers. $32 million mansion in Sydney, Australia — are Lately, the progeny of the political elite have ignored by the Chinese-language news media retooled the spoils system for a new era, mov- and blocked by Internet censors. ing into high-finance ventures like private eq- Allegations of bribery and corruption uity funds, where the potential returns dwarf against the nation’s top leaders typically fol- the benefits from serving as a middleman to low — rather than precede — a fall from po- government contracts or holding an executive litical grace. Mr. Bo’s downfall this spring, for post at a state monopoly. instance, came after his former police chief in Jeffrey Zeng, the son of the former Polit- Chongqing told American diplomats that Mr. buro member Zeng Peiyan, is a managing part- Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, had ordered the murder of ner at Kaixin Investments, a venture-capital Neil Heywood, a British businessman, in a dis- firm set up with two state-owned entities, China pute over the family’s business interests. Development Bank and Citic Capital. Liu Lefei, Evidence has surfaced of at least $160 mil- the son of another Politburo member, Liu Yun- lion in assets held by close relatives of Bo Xilai, shan, helps operate the $4.8 billion Citic Private and the authorities are investigating whether Equity Fund, one of the biggest state-managed other assets held by the family may have been funds. Last year, Alvin Jiang, the grandson of secretly and illegally moved offshore. former president Jiang Zemin, the former Com- Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, responded munist Party leader and president, helped es- by demanding a more forceful crackdown on tablish Boyu Capital, a private equity firm that corruption. Without naming Mr. Bo by name, is on its way to raising at least $1 billion. People’s Daily, the official Communist Party Most recently, with the Communist Party newspaper, denounced fortune seekers who promising to overhaul the nation’s media and stain the party’s purity by smuggling ill-gotten cultural industries, the relatives of China’s po- gains out of the country. litical elite are at the head of the crowd scram- Some scholars argue that the party is now bling for footholds in a new frontier. hostage to its own unholy alliances. Cheng Li, The February announcement of the deal between DreamWorks and three Chinese part- shown on nearly 90,000 movie screens across ners, including Shanghai Alliance Investment, the country. Government offices and schools was timed to coincide with the high-profile visit were ordered to buy tickets in bulk. The media to the United States of Xi Jinping, China’s vice was banned from criticizing it. It became one of president and presumptive next president. The last year’s top-grossing films. news release did not mention that Shanghai Al- Scholars describe the film industry as the liance is partly controlled by Jiang Zemin’s son new playground for princelings. Zhang Xiaojin, Jiang Mianheng. A person who answered the director of the Center of Political Development telephone at the Shanghai Alliance office here at Tsinghua University, said, “There are cases declined to comment. where propaganda department officials spe- Zeng Qinghuai, the brother of Zeng Qing- cifically ask their children to make films which hong, China’s former vice president, is also in they then approve.” the film business. He served as a consultant for Zhao Xiao, an economist at the University of the patriotic epic “Beginning of the Great Reviv- Science and Technology in Beijing, said, “They al.” The film exemplified the hand-in-glove rela- are everywhere, as long as the industry is prof- tionship between business and politics. It was itable.” n