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(lit.) to fall from a horse / (fig.) to suffer a setback / to come a cropper / to be sacked (e.g. for corruption)
corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten
HSK 7-9
"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951–52
to oppose corruption / anti-graft (measures, policy etc)
ICAC Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong
to fight corruption and advocate probity
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會|中共中央纪律检查委员会
Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale
Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong (ICAC)
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
to uncover (mistakes, corruption etc) / whistle-blowing
traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
to be corrupt / corruption / to embezzle
HSK 7-9
anti-corruption
National Supervision Commission of the PRC, anti-corruption agency established in 2018
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records
Bofors, Swedish arms company involved in major corruption case during 1980s
to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds
to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds
"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52
corruption
anti-corruption (policy)
anti-corruption
greed for bribes knows no bounds (idiom); unbridled corruption
error in a text / text corruption
Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008
Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption
Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption
(idiom) corruption
corruption
corrosion / to corrode (degrade chemically) / to rot / corruption
HSK 7-9
corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law
Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct
(Ming and Qing dynasties) Censorate, a body overseeing officials and investigating corruption
policy of high pay to discourage corruption
to encourage honesty / to discourage corruption
muckraking / to stir up scandal / to expose (corruption)
(idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4]
the crime of corruption
Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁 in 2006 over corruption allegations


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