China: Who rules the province? · Global Voices
Luisetta Mudie

Chinese Law Prof summarizes and comments on an article which analyzes the career of Qiu He (仇和), recently promoted to the rank of vice governor of Jiangsu Province. The essence of the issue, the Prof writes, is that Qiu has apparently run roughshod over the legal rights of those he has governed in previous positions, but has ultimately delivered impressive economic results and introduced political reforms, a result which leaves some commentators wondering how valuable democracy is anyway.