Backstory of China's Anticorruption Supervision Commission
When I wrote the paper The Rise of Party Commission of Discipline & Inspection (1927-2012) three years ago, I thought the CCDI中纪委 rose to power only after it was repurposed for anti-corruption in the late 1980s as corruption started to become prevalent during the reform era. Its activities in the early period of the PRC seemed very elusive. There are official documentations about the establishment of the CCDI in 1949 (including the draft decision with Mao's handwritten remarks published at the official website of the CCP). Then there is also the Party decision to change the Party Disciplinary Commission纪委 to the Party Supervision Commission监察委 in the wake of the very first Politburo power struggle since the Party came to power - the Gao-Rao incident (高饶事件). Other than that, I could not find any information that can tell me what exact these disciplinary institutions had been doing. No primary sources. And all the secondary sources that I had gleaned gave short shrift to this pe...