Life in prison for ex-Hangzhou Party boss Zhou Jiangyong
From 2018 to 2021, he was the Communist Party’s top man in Hangzhou, the picturesque lake city that is also one of the country’s internet business hubs. The job ended with him behind bars.
Nadya Yeh
Nadya Yeh is a Senior Editor at The China Project. Nadya got her Master’s degree at the Global Thought program at Columbia University and her Bachelor’s at Williams College. She has previously done research at the China Institute.
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