Chinese Leader Takes Broad Yet Selective Aim at Corruption

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Julie Makinen, Chinese Leader Takes Broad Yet Selective Aim at Corruption. Washington Post, July 6, 2014.
www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg ... 20140706-story.html

My comment:
(a) The first paragraph talks about anti-corruption efforts of the founding emperor of Ming dynasty. Taiwanese had no idea about any of them (when I was there). How come a foreign journalist know more? Is it a common knowledge in China?
(b) “After the party chief of the city of Guangzhou was put under investigation last week, the Global Times ran an editorial aimed at bucking up the masses. ‘Keep faith in nation's anti-graft campaign,’ the piece was headlined.”

buck up (vt): "to raise the morale of"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buck+up
(c) “Willy LAM, a Hong Kong-based political analyst”
林 和立
(d) “XU Guangyu, a retired military officer and consultant with the China Arms Control and Disarmament Assn” (CACDA)
徐光裕/ 中国军控与裁军协会