A Cartoon Biography: ANYTHING FOR POWER

Four: Villain Holding Sway 7: Murder, They Said After Yang Shangkun was forced to step down, Jiang Zemin was still very much afraid of him. Zeng Qinghong expressed his view, that if Yang was not done away with, he could eventually cause trouble. But it’d be risky for Jiang and Zeng to take...

Four: Villain Holding Sway 6: The Corrupted Fighting Corruption Under Jiang Zemin’s reign, corruption in the bureaucracy reached unprecedented levels. The irony is that, corrupted officials have been among the most vocal in China’s fight against corruption. The Yuan Hua case has a long...

Four: Villain Holding Sway 5: The “Core Leader” After fixing the Yang brothers and Chen Xitong, Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong often schemed together as to how they could strengthen their position. Two things they identified were to win over more officials through bribery, and to place their...

Four: Villain Holding Sway 4: A Turf War After the 4th Plenary Session of the CCP’s 14th Congress, now that Jiang Zemin indeed secured his political power, he proceeded to get rid of dissidents. Beijing had always been the target of power struggles. Without controlling the Beijing Garrison...

Four: Villain Holding Sway 3: The Two Con Men After Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour, Jiang Zemin’s shaky political status aggravated his partner, Zeng Qinghong. Zeng’s father, Zeng Shan, was at one time the Minister of Interna Affairs. His mother used to be the director of Yan An nursery...

Four: Villain Holding Sway 2: A Two-Faced Man Deng Xiaoping’s children still recall the day Jiang Zemin was first invited to Deng’s residence. As he stood humbly before Deng Xiaoping, his face full of nervous smiles. Those in attendance that day didn’t take notice, having seen many a...

Four: Villain Holding Sway 1: Support For The Massacre Won Him The Throne On April 25, the CCP’s Central Committee in a People’s Daily editorial, condemned students’ actions as turmoil, and stated they disturbed social order. The students were further upset. On May 13, the students went on a...

Three: A Mayor Of Mean Spirit 3: Censorship With A Vengeance While Jiang Zemin may be incompetent with real tasks, when it comes to boasting, few are his match. He had naturally come to understand the power of the media. Many Shanghai publications are read all over across China. So Senior...

Three: A Mayor Of Mean Spirit 2: A Fawner With Jealousy And Contempt In 1985, Jiang Ze-min became the Mayor of Shanghai, so desperate to show off his political achievements, with so little regard to people. He managed to turn over to the central government tax revenue of 12.5 billion yuan in...

Three: A Mayor Of Mean Spirit 1: A Try Out Of Iron Wrist Shanghai Party chief, Chen Guo-dong, and Mayor Wang Dao-han, deeply appreciated Jiang Shang-qing’s favors and promotions in the old days. To pay back Jiang Shang-qing’s goodwill, they both strongly endorsed the dead man’s phony adopted...

Two: Anything For Political Gains 4: Flip-flopping Social Climbing In 1976, there was a terrible earthquake in Tangshan, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. In the same year, the CCP’s three big guns, Zhou En-lai, Zhu De, and Mao Ze Dong died one after another. In Sept., soon after Mao...

Two: Anything For Political Gains 3: “Braggart Jiang” In 1966, Jiang Ze-min was 40 years old. Mao Ze Dong launched the Cultural Revolution, in hope of regaining dictatorial power over the Party, power which he felt had fallen into the hands of Liu Shao Qi. Mao incited students and workers at...

Two: Anything For Political Gains 2: A Bargaining Cuckold Wang Ye-ping graduated from Shanghai Foreign Language Institute. She is Wang Zhe-lan’s niece. After Jiang Ze-min transferred from the Japanese puppet Central University to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he visited her family and...

Two: Anything For Political Gains 1: A Self-Made “Foster Son” Jiang Ze-min’s uncle, Jiang Shang-qing, only 15 years his senior, was a CCP member, and was killed in gunfight, in 1939, survived by his wife, Wang Zhe-lan, and two daughters, Jiang Ze-ling, and Jiang Ze-hui Jiang Ze-min...

One: A Family Of Traitors 3: A Spy Under The Skirt The CCP’s army entered Shanghai in 1949. The food factory where Jiang Ze-min worked was, at that time, renamed, Yi Min, Number One Foodstuff Factory. The CCP cadre who made inspection of the factory was Wang Dao-han. Jiang Ze-min happened to...

One – A Family Of Traitors 1-2: Like Father Like Son The special agents of the invading Japanese Army, were headed up by a general Kenji Doihara, and his right hand man, was Ding Mo-cun. It was thus a top priority for Ding, to train some specialized students, who could blend in with regular...

One – A Family Of Traitors 1 – Jiang Zemin’s traitor father In1915, Jiang Ze-mn’s grandfather, Jiang Shi-xi, a doctor of Chinese medicine ventured into business. Jiang Shi-xi had seven children. The eldest child Jiang Shi–jun was Jiang Ze-min’s father. Jiang Ze-min has an older sister Jiang...