Word: pai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even when they do not hold high office, the relatives of China's elite enjoy lives of privilege. Known as the taizi pai, or the princes' faction, they attend the best schools, get the best jobs, live in luxury apartments and drive Mercedes-Benz to shop in special stores. Such advantages naturally gall the less favored. "Why him and not me?" asks a party official who was recently leapfrogged by a young taizi pai colleague. "You ponder the question, and the answer is nepotism...
...have stirred outrage among the many. Leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Deng Xiaoping have decried nepotism and launched campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted or fired," he declared. "Those...
...fall reflects the latest Chinese attack on the ancient bureaucratic practice of dispensing jobs and favors to friends and family members. After flourishing for centuries of imperial rule, nepotism still thrives under avowedly classless Communism. Known as taizi pai, or the princes' faction, the children of leaders attend the best schools, get the best jobs and are allowed to travel abroad. "They are always one step ahead of the pack," complains a Peking University graduate student. The privileged range from Vice Premier Li Peng, 59, the adopted son of the late Premier Chou En-lai, to junior officials throughout...
...issue will come to a head next month when the 13th Communist Party Congress meets to select the country's top leaders. In secret ballots last month, grass-roots party members reportedly rejected several prominent taizi pai as delegates. Among them: Chen Yuan, the son of Politburo Member Chen Yun and a member of the standing committee of the Peking Municipal Party, and Chen Haosu, Vice Minister of Radio, Film and Television and son of the late Marshal Chen Yi. Yet neither is finished in politics. Insiders expect Chen Yuan to be named Deputy Party Secretary in Peking, while Chen...