Xi Jinping : the most powerful man in the world
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Xi Jinping : the most powerful man in the world
Polity Press, c2022
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Bibliography: p. [202]-204
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
'Seek Truth from Facts' ...
1 Who Cares If a Sack of Rice Falls over in China?
Since the emergence of Covid-19, we know that we all should
2 Xi Jinping's Family Background: The Formative Years
From Chinese nightmare to Chinese dream
3 A Colourful Character in a Uniform Crowd
Xi Jinping, husband of a folk singer
4 The Fight against Corruption
Stalin as role model
5 Persecuted by Mao - Revered Like Mao
Xi's relationship with China's towering father figure
6 Confucianism and Communism
How to combine what does not belong together
7 From 5G to TikTok
Xi Jinping's China: between a bright digital future and an Orwellian surveillance state
8 The Dalai Lama and the Uyghurs
How friends of the Xi family became their enemies
9 Xi for Future
The eco-president
10 The New Silk Road
Xi's path to global power
11 Peace as Part of China's DNA?
The trade war and the troubled relationship with the US
12 Why Xi Jinping Fears Hong Kong and Taiwan
The other, democratic China
13 Will the Whole World Benefit from the Chinese Dream?
From Chinese nightmare to Chinese dream
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by "Nielsen BookData"