Shanghai clique

Shanghai clique
Shanghai clique
Leader	Jiang Zemin
Members	Wu Bangguo; Huang Ju; Zeng Qinghong; Jia Qinglin; Chen Liangyu; Chen Zhili; Jia Ting'an
Founded	1989
Dissolved	2022
Headquarters	Shanghai and Beijing
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics Three Represents;
	Politics of China; Political parties; Elections;

The Shanghai clique (simplified Chinese: 上海帮; traditional Chinese: 上海幫; pinyin: Shànghǎi bāng), also referred to as the Shanghai gang, Jiang clique, or Jiang faction, refers to an informal group of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who rose to prominence under former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin while he served as the party chief and mayor of Shanghai.^[1]^[2]

Chinese politics have long been defined by the competition between intra-party factions' ability to place key members and allies in positions of power within the CCP and Chinese government. In the 1990s when Jiang Zemin was the CCP General Secretary, Chinese politics was dominated by the Shanghai gang as Jiang attempted to place cultivated ideological followers in senior positions within the government. Under Hu Jintao, the Shanghai gang balanced Hu's Chinese Communist Youth League (CCYL) faction in government and under Xi Jinping, the Shanghai gang continues to contend with Xi's faction wherein both factions attempt to obtain the political upper-hand through the nomination of chosen officials to senior roles.^[3]

^ David M. Finkelstein; Maryanne Kivlehan (2015). China's Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-317-47492-0.
^ Li, Cheng (30 April 2002). The "Shanghai Gang": Force for Stability or Cause for Conflict?* (Report). Hoover Institution. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
^ Shukla, Srijan (14 February 2021). "This is how Xi Jinping gang sidelined CCP deep factions". ThePrint. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

[Finkelstein-1] David M. Finkelstein; Maryanne Kivlehan (2015). China's Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-317-47492-0.

[2] Li, Cheng (30 April 2002). The "Shanghai Gang": Force for Stability or Cause for Conflict?* (Report). Hoover Institution. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

[3] Shukla, Srijan (14 February 2021). "This is how Xi Jinping gang sidelined CCP deep factions". ThePrint. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

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