Yanda 2001: Form and Strategy in a Chinese Anti-crime Campaign

Abstract

This paper is about an anti-crime campaign in the People's Republic of China (PRC) which began in April 2001. It seeks to address the “what, when, where, how and why ” of the first months of China's latest “Strike Hard ” (Yanda) anti-crime campaign by examining four strategies of Yanda 2001 in relation to their precedents in China's first and bloodiest Yanda Campaign in 1983. This paper finds that although operations are more sophisticated and specialised, the broad strategies of the first months of Yanda 2001 do not differ significantly in approach from those employed in the first campaign 20 years ago. This is despite the increasing expectations of professionalism placed on the police, prosecuting bodies and courts in China over the last decade.

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