This study sought to examine whether pressure from China’s dynamic, yet repressed, civil society had any impact on the Chinese state’s anti-corruption strategies. It was discovered that online activism in China has been on the rise in recent years, and this activism has been working in tandem with the government to monitor public and private corruption, exposing numerous cases online. Increasing trends of online activism seem to be leading to an augmented government anti-corruption strategy that is sensitive to issues exposed on the Internet and to public opinion. As the government sought to shore up its credibility, it was able to harness this wave of public participation to work towards its own ends. Recent reforms in China have attempted to institute public surveillance and monitoring as a central part of the government’s anti-corruption efforts. By illuminating the changing institutional design of the anti-corruption agencies within the Party and the government since the 1990s, this study found that the most recent campaign to rally pubic participation was sincere as the goal of clean government and limited corruption benefit both the government and Chinese society. However, the current anti-corruption regime still has engrained problems and conflicts of interest. Until public surveillance is fully developed and there are more democratic checks and balances, this study does not predict that corruption will be eliminated in China in the near future. / published_or_final_version / China Development Studies / Master / Master of Arts in China Development Studies

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-88) Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-222).

University of Macau / Faculty of Business Administration. / Department of Accounting and Information Management

published_or_final_version / SPACE / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California at Berkeley, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 365-401).

published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration