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Despite the Chinese central government's anti-corruption policies and restrictions on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres' conduct, many rural cadres still hold or join lavish banquets, but in secret. Why do cadres take such risks? Why is banqueting so important for them? This ethnographic study in one rural county shows how instrumental banqueting (fanju) and associated interactions enhance exchange among rural cadres and businessmen, which can be understood as a process of relational work. This relational work exaggerates and adorns participants' personal relationships and constructs a moral basis for corruption. This style of relational work uses the Confucian notion of li as an excuse to show benevolence(ren), creating "ritualized relational work." This paper contributes to an understanding of the resilience of guanxi practices during President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes lopezobradorism, based on political identities theory (Aboy Carlés, 2001a) and Ernesto Laclau´s concept of populism (2005). Assuming that lopezobradorism has constituted a populist political identity, this paper analyzes how this identity articulated demands and extended its electoral base between 2005 and 2018. Particularly, we highlight the antagonistic displacements and mutations of lopezobradorism as a political subject. In this sense, we observe that in 2005-06 AMLO presented himself as "the candidate of the poor" and established a political frontier between rich and poor, while in 2012 he was more centered on insecurity and corruption, trying to "reconcile" with some social sectors for his protest post-2006. In 2018, he accomplished to articulate his priority against poverty and insecurity, adding a strong discourse against corruption and trying to include politics, businessmen and famous people in his coalition; in this way, lopezobradorism suffered its last mutation establishing a frontier between "a corrupt elite" and "the people". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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