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Saturday, January 24, 2009



Princelings in the Limelight

I have noticed a trend in the People's Daily website since the 17th Party Congress--princelings, the children of Chinese leaders, are increasingly bandying their "blood" credentials in various stories. You see interviews with princelings recounting their memories of their fathers displayed prominently on the website. Even Mao Xinyu, the grandson of Chairman Mao (left), is trotted out frequently. The latest item goes too far, I think. First of all, instead of "princelings," they are now called "red descendants." Eh, doesn't that sound a bit like the "blood line theory," which dominated early Red Guard discourse back in the Cultural Revolution (slogan: father a hero, son good man; father reactionary, son turtle's egg). These "red descendants" are collectively wishing the Chinese people happy new year. Great! So now it's officially okay to admit that "red descendants" is a coherent social group, one that is to be admired by the people.

Although this may sound trivial, but Deng Xiaoping would never, ever have allowed this. Back in the 80s, strict rules were observed to hide the identities of princelings and to disregard any personal ties between fathers and off springs. Of course, people still used connections to get their children plum jobs. However, princeling status had no legitimacy or social standing. Princelings used to hide their own identities to all but the closest friends. Now all of these ties are bandied about casually and endorsed officially in the press as "red descendants." Even Bo Xicheng, Bo Xilai's elusive brother, makes an appearance. Look, this looks suspiciously like the princelings' play at building up more legitimacy for themselves in preparation of Xi Jinping's takeover. It is sad to see because Chen Yun and even Xi Zhongxun himself would never have allowed such abuse of these ties in the public discourse. Where is Song Ping when you need him?

http://dangshi.people.com.cn/GB/8706850.html

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Comments:
hi there.

sounds like good old imperial houses to me.like orwell wrote in animal farm.
do these "red descendants" have to pass exams before becoming govt officials?
or is that also "kow tim" via $$$ and bloodline?
 
Interesting, to be sure. But it seems to me that you are making much out of nothing. A tempest in a teacup and all that. After all, 2009 is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC. I expect that we'll see many more references to revolutionary history during the next few months. In the end, I haven't met a single Chinese who is impressed with the decendents of the PRC's founding fathers. Quite the opposite, in fact. If this is, indeed, a significant push for influence, I don't expect that it will go over too well with the people.
 
Couldn't this mean to say that many of the red descendants are actually fairly normal people, or people who devote their careers to military, rather than red capitalists that ordinary folks hate? A bit farfetched to say that this signatories are pushing for influence.
 
Sure it is the 60th anniversay of of the founding, and the descendents of the founders have consolidated their control over the commanding heights of the economy. They are an unimpressive lot, and their push for influence is well underway. Just look at the management of major financial institutions. They are comparatively benign, however, when compared to the balloning ranks of local bureacrats who are simply jackals.
 
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