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About this book
If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately poor rural regions where families still struggle with malnutrition.
Today, Xi Jinping faces a series of monumental challenges that would make other global leaders tremble: a trade war with the USA, political unrest in Hong Kong, accusations of genocide in Xinjiang, stuttering economic growth and a devastating global pandemic that originated inside China.
But who is Xi Jinping and what does he really want? To rejuvenate China and bring economic prosperity to all its people? To challenge American supremacy and turn China into the world's dominant power? Avoiding both sycophantic flattery and outright condemnation, this new biography by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges gets inside the head of one of the world's most mysterious leaders. Skilfully unravelling the hidden story of Xi Jinping's life and career, from his early childhood to his rise to the pinnacles of the Party and the State, they flesh out his views and uncover how he became the most powerful man in the world.
This biography of China's leader will be indispensable for anyone interested in China and where it is heading. Also available as an audiobook.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- âSeek Truth from Factsâ âŚ
- 1 Who Cares If a Sack of Rice Falls over in China?âSince the emergence of Covid-19, we know that we all should
- 2 Xi Jinpingâs Family Background: The Formative YearsâFrom Chinese nightmare to Chinese dream
- 3 A Colourful Character in a Uniform CrowdâXi Jinping, husband of a folk singer
- 4 The Fight against CorruptionâStalin as role model
- 5 Persecuted by Mao â Revered Like MaoâXiâs relationship with Chinaâs towering father figure
- 6 Confucianism and CommunismâHow to combine what does not belong together
- 7 From 5G to TikTokâXi Jinpingâs China: between a bright digital future and an Orwellian surveillance state
- 8 The Dalai Lama and the UyghursâHow friends of the Xi family became their enemies
- 9 Xi for FutureâThe eco-president
- 10 The New Silk RoadâXiâs path to global power
- 11 Peace as Part of Chinaâs DNA?âThe trade war and the troubled relationship with the US
- 12 Why Xi Jinping Fears Hong Kong and TaiwanâThe other, democratic China
- 13 Will the Whole World Benefit from the Chinese Dream?
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- End User License Agreement