Her analysis is based on prosecutorial data, government compensation figures, news reports - and her own interviews with more than 400 Chinese bureaucrats. She recently published a book called China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Yuen Yuen Ang is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. But corruption in this country has become so legalized and institutionalized, it’s hard to say that it’s “corrupt.” Some people would be really offended by the word. Corruption in China is still of an illegal form. Yuen Yuen ANG: The best way to understand China’s political system is that it is a corrupt meritocracy.ĭUBNER: If I were to ask you to point to another corrupt meritocracy - maybe it’s even one where you and I are both located at the moment - what would you say?ĪNG: I think it’s more complicated in this country.
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