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Ma Yinchu was born in 1882 in Zhejiang, China. The son of a small business owner, he was inclined towards scholarship. After earning an undergraduate degree at Tianjin University, he studied at Yale, subsequently earning a PhD in economics and philosophy from Columbia University. He returned to China and helped found the Shanghai College of Commerce and the Chinese Economics Society.
While politically astute, Dr Ma’s ill-timed criticism of the Kuomintang government led to house arrest. However, upon the victory of Mao’s People’s Liberation Army in 1949, his career was revived. For the next decade, fortune smiled on Dr Ma through the patronage of his friend Zhou Enlai, Chairman Mao’s right-hand man. The Communist government appointed him president of Zhejiang University, and soon after he was appointed president of the prestigious Peking University.
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Commentary: Why is former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s eulogy about his mother being censored? Chinese censors may have deemed the Macau Herald article to be an unacceptable, scalding criticism of President Xi Jinping and his policies, but that view is unwarranted, says Professor Bo Zhiyue.
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks to former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao after the closing session of the National People s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Mar 17, 2013. (Photo: AFP/Goh Chai Hin)
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After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era
A Joint Report of the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and the Lowy Institute
Key Findings
After more than eight years in office, Xi Jinping has made himself into China’s most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping, but in doing so, Xi has destabilised elite politics and demolished the power sharing norms that evolved since the 1980s.
By removing de jure and de facto term limits on the most senior position of power, and thus far refusing to nominate his successor, Xi has solidified his own leadership position but potentially pushed the country towards a destabilising succession crisis.