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Over the last decade, the CCP deployed discipline inspectors not only to fight corruption, but also to assert the authority of party networks in businesses, in the service of Xi Jinping’s ambitions for economic governance. Focusing on the banking sector, this talk shows that transformative change is underway: Business leaders adopt a new discourse submitting to the CPC’s open-ended authority; formal rules and incentive systems enshrine the Party’s authority; and party leaders create precedents for politically oriented banking.

Daniel Koss is a political scientist working as a Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at Academia Sinica in Taipei. Koss’s research focuses on political parties and East Asian politics, with a particular interest in history. His first book, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, is entitled “Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State”. He now works on a book manuscript about East Asia’s other perennial ruling party, namely the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.