No way was I going to unleash a spoiled princeling into the world.

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Further, their partnership also brings together the Princeling and Communist Youth League factions.

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And his privileged upbringing as the "princeling" son of a top official has given him an easy-going charm and self-confidence.

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Add to that the entrenched corruption of the Princeling faction, and China is facing its toughest economic challenges in more than a decade.

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The party chief of Guangdong province in the south, Wang Yang, who is another (non-princeling) contender for the Politburo's standing committee, is widely seen as a bit more open-minded.

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Like Mr. Bo, whose father was a renowned revolutionary leader, Mr. Zhang is often referred to as a "princeling" as the son of an army general who helped to fight a Japanese invasion and Chinese national forces.

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