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  The Weekly Standard
Huang Ju, aged 69 and a member of the Shanghai clique, is a protégé of former president Jiang Zemin.
Jiang Zemin, Huang Ju, and Chen Liangyu (who succeeded Huang as party chief of Shanghai) have formed the clique’s “iron triangle.” In September 2006, Chen Liangyu was ousted as Shanghai party boss for his involvement in a social security fund scandal.
Huang’s demise--literal or figurative--would constitute a heavy blow to the Shanghai clique in its ongoing struggle with incumbent President Hu Jintao for control of the policy agenda.
www.weeklystandard.com /weblogs/TWSFP/2007/05/a_reported_death_in_the_shangh.asp   (451 words)

  
  Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shanghai was lost to Japan in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 until its surrender in 1945.
Shanghai is increasingly a critical center of communication with the western world, examples include the opening of the Pac-Med Medical Exchange in June of 2004.
Shanghai is seen as the birthplace of everything considered modern in China; and was the cultural and economic center of East Asia for the first half of the twentieth century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai   (3912 words)

  
 Shanghai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shanghai (Chinese: 上海, pinyin: shàng hǎi; Shanghainese IPA: /zɑ̃ hɛ/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta.
Shanghai was occupied by Japan in 1937 until its surrender in 1945.
Shanghai is the birthplace of everything considered modern in China; and was the cultural and economic center of East Asia for the first half of the twentieth century.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sh/shanghai.html   (2796 words)

  
 Shanghai, China - City Guide
Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China's largest city.
Many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s.
Historically very western, Shanghai is increasingly a critical center of communication with the western world, examples include the opening of the Pac-Med Medical Exchange in June of 2004.
www.chinashanghai.info   (646 words)

  
 TIMEasia Magazine: Shanghai Swings!
Shanghai is also luring back families that had fled when the banks and ballrooms were boarded up in 1949.
With so much buzz surrounding Shanghai, the city has even attracted what is perhaps the most reluctant group to return: locals who left in the 1980s and '90s, when the place was still sheathed in gray.
But Shanghai, as a city, is only 150 years young, a patchwork of East and West the vitality and optimism of which embody the very essence of the future.
www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501040927/story4.html   (969 words)

  
 Shanghai Topic Center - Travel to China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shanghai clique The Shanghai clique is an informal name for officials in the central government of the People's Republic of China who rose...
Shanghai Grand Theater Shanghai Grand Theater is located at the intersection of Central Boulevard and Huangpi Road South in northern part of the P...
Shanghai Museum Image:Shanghaimuseumexterior.jpgthumbright300pxShanghai Museum The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Ch...
www.famouschinese.com /topic/Shanghai   (678 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Contentious politics within the CCP
Most of the flashpoints between the two cliques are related to the division of the spoils: for example, who gets a fatter share of the plum and powerful jobs; and who has control over coveted financial and economic resources.
Shanghai party boss Chen has gone so far as to assert in internal meetings that if overdone, the cooling-down measures could lead to a contraction of the national economy that the country can ill afford.
It seems clear that despite senior Shanghai cadres' protests, Hu was sticking to his view that the metropolis' single-minded pursuit of super-speedy GDP growth, as well as prestige projects, left a lot to be desired.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=9406   (1866 words)

  
 Beijing's graft inquiry reins in Shanghai 'clique' | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SHANGHAI, CHINA – With its rooftop turrets and fancy brickwork, the Moller Villa is a throwback to the Roaring '20s, when the treaty port of Shanghai, China, was a byword for speculative excess.
Chen Liangyu, the party boss dismissed last month, was a member of this "Shanghai clique," and his removal could prefigure a wider purge ahead of a crucial party congress next year.
Shanghai's boosters say that after the fuss dies down, its world-class infrastructure, strategic location, and hardwired capitalist ethos will prove hard to beat.
www.csmonitor.com /2006/1018/p01s04-woap.html   (1153 words)

  
 Shanghai - Shanghai - Travel to China
Shanghai (zh-cp c=上海 p=Shandagrave;nghǎi; Shanghainese International Phonetic AlphabetIPA: IPA/zɑ̃ hɛ/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta.
Administratively, Shanghai is one of four municipalities of Chinamunicipalities of the People's Republic of China, which have political divisions of Chinaprovincial-level status.
Shanghai is divided into 19 Political divisions of China#County levelcounty-level divisions: 18 district of Chinadistricts and 1 county of Chinacounty.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Shanghai   (3656 words)

  
 Shanghai: The showplace of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shanghai is the key to unlocking the hinterland, allowing it to share in the two decades of growth enjoyed by the country's coastal provinces.
Shanghai provides the Chinese government with almost one-ninth of its revenue and accounts for 8% of China's economic output.
In Shanghai, Pudong's skyscrapers stare westward at the elegant, old stone banks and trading houses that line the Bund, the waterfront promenade that helped give the city its reputation as the ''Paris of the East'' in the 1920s and '30s.
www.cincinnati.com /travel/stories/shanghai.html   (1037 words)

  
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Zhou, detained by police in late May, is believed to be close to Shanghai Faction politicians, particularly the sons of powerful Shanghai-affiliated cadres.
This means the president may at the opportune moment use his dossiers of compromised members of the Shanghai Faction to bring Jiang's followers to heel.
While investigation into "Shanghai tycoon" Zhou and his cronies seems to have stalled, Hu and Wu have recently brought to justice big shots such as the well-connected former party boss of Hebei Province Cheng Weigao.
www.taiwansecurity.org /CNN/2003/CNN-090303.htm   (895 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: President Jiang -- October 27, 1997
Jiang was born in 1926 in Yangzhou City, North of Shanghai.
His timing was excellent when he moved from Shanghai to Beijing in 1989 under the tutelage of the paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
The plane landed in Shanghai and suddenly he was met by a delegation of party leaders, including Jiang, taken off.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/prc_10-27.html   (2700 words)

  
 Travel To China - Shanghai
Shanghai (??, pinyin: shàng hai; Shanghainese IPA ASCII: /zANhE/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta.
Shanghai experiences all four seasons, with freezing temperatures during the winter season and a 32 degrees Celsius average high during the hottest months of July and August (reaching 40 degrees occassionally).
The public transportation system in Shanghai is flourishing: Shanghai has more than one thousand bus lines and three metro (subway) lines (line1 no.1, no.2 and no.3) at present.
www.goingtochina.com /cities/Shanghai.htm   (2224 words)

  
 Shanghai clique - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Shanghai clique is an informal name for officials in the central government of the People's Republic of China who rose to prominence in the Shanghai city administration under Jiang Zemin and was used somewhat pejoratively to describe Jiang's efforts to promote people associated with Shanghai.
Five or six of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China are considered members of the clique, although the President Hu Jintao and the Premier Wen Jiabao are not.
The article about Shanghai clique contains information related to Shanghai clique and See also.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Shanghai_clique   (129 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Human Rights Attorney Reveals Corruption in Shanghai
The attorney was jailed for representing Shanghai residents who were evicted from their homes, which were being demolished to make way for new development.
Prior to his arrest, Zheng sued the Shanghai government and Zhou Zhengyi, former Shanghai tycoon and Secretary of the Party Committee.
After Zheng Enchong exposed the scandals of the Shanghai government, he and his wife, Jiang Meili, were summoned to their sub-district office by local officials on June 8, 2006.
en.epochtimes.com /news/6-6-13/42692.html   (734 words)

  
 Tibetan Bulletin - Online: Volume 8, Issue 4, July - August 2004
Headed by the boom city of Shanghai, the YRD is one of the world’s economic hotspots, but development of the upstream ports is emerging as an issue within the logistics industry, for which the river is already important.
Even if all this were to change and Shanghai’s hegemony over river business were broken, it would then have to be followed up by improving land-based infrastructures upriver, not just building new roads and railways but linking them to the inland ports.
Huang, of Shanghai Maritime University, said hardware development should be done as soon as possible but admitted it would require a refocusing of policy.
www.tibet.net /tibbul/2004/0708/tibetnews6.html   (1455 words)

  
 Epochtimes English Edition-
In the course of this war, the case of a Shanghai lawyer Zheng Enchong is a battle which has wide-ranging implications.
Dictatorship won the first round: instead of the facts of Zhou’s illegal behavior being publicized, the Shanghai gang forced the courts to paint Zheng Enchong as the “criminal.” Zheng was tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison for three years.
But Shanghai is Jiang’s old stomping ground and the judge will have to resist the impulse to protect himself from Jiang’s revenge.
english.epochtimes.com /news/3-11-23/15354.html   (753 words)

  
 Jiang Zemin - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jiang was a member of the Communist student underground, achieving party membership in 1946, and graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Jiang was a compromise candidate chosen by Deng Xiaoping, Li Peng, Chen Yun[?], and the retired elders on March 27, 1993 to replace the more liberal Zhao Ziyang, who was considered too conciliatory to student protestors.
Although not directly involved with the crackdown, he was elevated to central party positions after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 for his role in averting similar protests in Shanghai.
openproxy.ath.cx /ji/Jiang_Zemin.html   (538 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com | China: The New Guard | 10/25/99
The leadership compound inside Zhongnanhai is a world of factions--conservatives, reformers, princelings with long pedigrees, the Shanghai clique--and of personal feuds, old debts and older memories.
As mayor of Shanghai, Xu occupies a charmed seat--several predecessors went on to greater things in the capital.
Xu, who studied in Britain and worked as a technician in Sweden, was teaching technology in Shanghai when Zhu tapped him to head the city's planning commission--because Xu had said he "hated" central planning, a sentiment right up Zhu's street.
www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/99/1025/china.next.html   (1763 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: China News - Shanghai clique takes another hit
And recently, Shanghai tycoon Zhou Zhengyi was arrested again on charges of financial irregularities and offering bribes to officials.
His losing his power, as well as the disgrace of Chen, suggests his boss, Jiang, is no longer capable of protecting his proteges.
With Hung's downfall, the collapse of the Shanghai clique can be expected, paving the way for the coming of President Hu Jintao's era after the party's 17th National Congress this autumn - Hu is also party boss.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/IA27Ad01.html   (1121 words)

  
 Shanghai Clique Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 A Princeling Takes Control Of Shanghai - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The absence of any political ties in Shanghai is one of Xi’s key assets to President Hu, who hopes to eliminate any remaining influence of the Shanghai clique and consolidate his power nationwide.
But Xi made many friends in Shanghai during his five-year tenure as party secretary in Zhejiang, a scenic coastal province bordering the city to the south that is often called its back garden due to the predilection of Shanghai residents to holiday there.
Under his guidance, the Zhejiang provincial government assisted Shanghai in expanding Shanghai harbor, one of the world's top container ports, in addition to forging closer transportation links through highways and a planned high-speed magnetic railway.
www.forbes.com /business/2007/03/26/shanghai-secretary-xi-face-cx_jc_0323autofacescan01.html?partner=rss   (472 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hu performs without song and dance - Oct. 29, 2003
On the personnel front, Hu, the head of the so-called Communist Youth League (CYL) Faction in Chinese politics, still faces a tremendous challenge from the Shanghai clique led by Jiang.
This was evident from Hu's recent effort to resuscitate the political fortune of CYL affiliate Meng Xuenong, the Beijing mayor who was fired last April for failing to tackle the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
They say in the event Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu had to take political responsibility for the series of corruption and real-estate scandals in the East China metropolis, Hu would favor Jiangsu party boss Li Yuanchao taking Chen's place.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/27/willy.column   (1039 words)

  
 Huang Ju Handed Over Power, Shanghai Clique Takes Another Hit « Status of Chinese People
It will be revealing if Huang, who is a key member of the Shanghai clique headed by former president Jiang Zemin, has in fact lost his power ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) 17th National Congress this autumn.
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 Huang Ju   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
With very close relations with his patron Jiang Zemin, he is considered a member of the "Shanghai clique".
Born in Jiashan, Zhejiang Province, Huang graduated in electrical engineering from Qinghua University.
Huang became mayor of Shanghai in 1991 and then city's Party chief in 1994, which he served until October 2002.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Huang-Ju.htm   (226 words)

  
 Shanghai clique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Shanghai clique is an informal name for officials in the central government of the
Jiang Zemin and was used somewhat pejoratively to describe Jiang's efforts to promote people associated with Shanghai.
Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China are considered members of the clique, although the
en.showmy.net /Shanghai_clique   (91 words)

  
 Shanghai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shanghai (; Shanghainese IPA:), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China's largest city.
Shanghai Expat: City Guide about foreigners Living and Working in Shanghai
Shanghai Events and Features: Online Edition of that's Shanghai magazine
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 Shanghai clique - Shanghai - Travel to China
Shanghai clique - Shanghai - Travel to China
Five or six of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China are considered members of the clique, although the President of the People's Republic of ChinaPresident Hu Jintao and the Premier of the People's Republic of ChinaPremier Wen Jiabao are not.
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