Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London
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The Chongqing Party Secretary and the Mayor of the City of Dalian
Body lie was the Chongqing party secretary and before that had been the mayor of the city of dahlian. His father was jailed in fact body lie is probably now sitting in exactly the same jail i've given away the ending but you know he stood the eagle inExactly the same jail as his dad was in during and after the cultural revolution. He then got posted to dalian as mayor and he did all these incredible things he was totally theatrical in a way that chinese politicians are supposed to be. The parallels are really interesting as well as the differences they are both of a generation of an elite princeling background.
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