Tsinghua Gang
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Tsinghua Gang is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 06, 2022 and April 28, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “sometimes called … the Tsinghua Gang”; “the Shanghai Gang didn’t oppose the Tsinghua Gang”. It most often appears alongside Bo Xilai, CCP, Central Military Commission.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 06, 2022
- Last seen: April 28, 2022
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- Bo Xilai (2 shared issues)
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- CCP (2 shared issues)
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- Central Military Commission (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- CYL (2 shared issues)
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- Deng (2 shared issues)
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- Deng Xiaoping (2 shared issues)
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- Elizabeth Economy (2 shared issues)
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- Hu (2 shared issues)
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- Hu Jintao (2 shared issues)
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- Jiang (2 shared issues)
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- Li Keqiang (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
One thing that confuses me about this explanation is that Xi quickly pivoted from the champion of the Shanghai Gang to having his own faction, sometimes called the Xi Gang or the Tsinghua Gang.
I think "admiration of Dengism" and "shadowy network" kind of understates the main force holding Jiang back which is that Deng himself was still alive for a good portion of his rule. Had Jiang tried to seize power, Deng could simply have swept back in. Jiang likely had the same influence on Hu, and indeed reports often pin Jiang as the main opposition to Xi - Scott asked why the Shanghai Gang didn't oppose the Tsinghua Gang, but the answer is that they did, but chances are Jiang's power had just waned sufficiently by then that he couldn't do much. And though he is still alive, Jiang certainly couldn't just march back into power the way Deng could have.