He was working with Mr. Wang on a four-volume book about the anti-mafia campaign that resulted in thousands of arrests in 2009. As a result of the campaign, a top police officer, Wen Qiang, was executed, as were female gangsters and many others. To...

Liaoning province in 1999. In June 2008, the anti-triad hero was appointed as the head of police bureau in Chongqing city. Working side-by-side with Bo Xilai, he arrested a large number of former government officials in Chongqing on charges of...

They sent police to Beijing to arrest a leading lawyer for daring to defend his gangster client, even though the lawyer worked for a firm controlled by a princeling friend. They exposed details of bribery, organised crime and rape by Chongqing's then...

They sent police to Beijing to arrest a leading lawyer, Li Zhuang, for daring to defend his gangster client, even though he worked for a law firm controlled by an eminent princeling friend. They exposed sordid details of bribery, organised crime and...

Whatever has happened to Wang, the scandal could derail Bo Xilai, the Communist Party secretary in Chongqing and a rising political star. Wang was Bo's top cop during a well-publicized crackdown on organized crime in Chongqing in which Wang's...

Soon after Bo was named head of the ruling Communist Party in Chongqing in 2008, he made Wang deputy police chief. In that job, Wang directed a dramatic and widely publicized campaign against organized crime that netted – among other big fish – his...