A downloadable Chinese game called “The Incorruptible Warrior” is an unexpected success — something attributed to Chinese exhaustion and frustration with official corruption. In the game you’re a civil servant out for blood, torturing and executing corrupt officials. The reason for the public interest is that the hero of the game is a “honest and upright official” whose assignment is to weed out corrupt officials, along with their children and mistresses. Here ‘weed out’ does not ‘putting in jail’ — it means using weapons, wizardry and torture to kill them.

sponsored by “the Communist Party Disciplinary Committee”

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