Former Director of China Academy of Arts Stripped of Party Membership and Assets Confiscated for Bribery

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(Beijing=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Hyun-jung = Lian Ji, former director of the China Academy of Arts and a high-ranking official in China's culture and arts sector, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party on corruption charges...

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On October 9, the Chinese Communist Party officially announced that Lian Ji, former president of the Chinese Academy of Arts, and Ding Yexian, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region, had been expelled from the Party. Lian Ji was accused of engaging in power-for-money transactions and of carrying out orders from the authorities to suppress the liberal magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu.