Special report | A survey of China
Living with Big Brother
By getting round him
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POWER in China is exercised through the largest coercive apparatus in the world, designed mainly to shape the public conduct of China's citizens, as well as their private behaviour between the bedsheets. A secondary aim is to garner benefits for its insiders, mostly--although not exclusively--of a material kind.
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