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The Bo Xilai Scandal ePub eBook
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The Bo Xilai Scandal ePub eBook

by FT reporters reporters
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
95 pages
1h 34m
English
FT Publishing International
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The flower prince

Bo's campaigns and his fixation on communist “morality” raised eyebrows from some people who pointed out that Bo's own son Guagua was now studying at Oxford University in the UK, where he had a reputation as a spoilt and wealthy “huahua gongzi” or “flower prince”.

While Bo was ordering officials in Chongqing to be more in touch with the masses and to eschew personal wealth and prestige, his son had graduated from Harrow and been admitted to Oxford University’s prestigious Balliol College in 2006. People close to Guagua and Heywood at this time say they were good friends and the Englishman was a mentor figure who would often visit the young man at Oxford.

When Guagua organised a Silk Road-themed ball for the Oxford Union, Heywood ...

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