Book Review: Double Paradox – Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
Author: Andrew Wedeman Publisher: Cornell University Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Andrew Wedeman documents 2,816 cases of corruption in China from a Lexis-Nexis database, which are sorted in two ways: 1. by time period (from the pre-Reform or pre-1978 era up to 2009) and 2. by type of corruption. The types of government corruption at many levels are wide-ranging. If alphabetically sorted, they are: ‘asset-stripping’ with 208 cases, to taxation with 38 cases. The fewest instances of documented corruption are related to taxation, and the most are construction and real estate-related, with 439 cases. You will be shocked...
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