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The party's interests come first : the life of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping / Joseph Torigian

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  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • The party's interests come first : the life of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping / Joseph Torigian
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Publication
  • Stanford, California : Stanford University Press : Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Date de copyright
  • C 2025
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (vii-704 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism
ISBN
  • 978-1-5036-3475-6
EAN
  • 9781503634756
Appartient à la collection
  • Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark 2023 Stanford, California Hoover Institution Stanford University press
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 923.251 04
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliographie pages 635-679. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world - and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. He worked at the right-hand of prominent leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, and he initiated the Special Economic Zones that launched China into the reform era after Mao's death. He led the Party's United Front efforts toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. And though in 1989 he initially sought to avoid violence, he ultimately supported the Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen protesters. The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China, and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian vividly tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands. Through the eyes of Xi Jinping's father, Torigian reveals the extraordinary organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the CCP - and the terrible cost in human suffering that comes with it.
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