The Red Emperor
Xi Jinping and His New China
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Narrated by:
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Daniel York Loh
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By:
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Michael Sheridan
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The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families, the young Xi was exiled to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. He fought his way back to the top by stealth, privilege and guile. In 2012, following the spectacular fall of his rival Bo Xilai, Xi Jinping became the leader of China.
In a compulsively readable narrative, veteran foreign correspondent Michael Sheridan takes the reader from the poor, isolated country of Xi's youth to the military and economic superpower of today. In Xi's new China, family mafias struggle for power amid murder, corruption and sex scandals as ministers and generals vanish in purges. No one is safe in his techno-security state. Xi is an absolute ruler whose word is law on everything from war and peace to the ruthless campaign against Covid-19. He aims to dominate world trade, to defeat Western democracy and to make China the supreme power in the East. A loner and a risk-taker, he is the most consequential leader of our time.
Drawing on intimate stories from the closed world of China's leading families and two decades of first-hand reporting, Michael Sheridan sheds new light on the history and politics of China. The book reveals that behind the façade of the Chinese Communist Party there is a modern dynasty and a new emperor.©2024 Michael Sheridan (P)2024 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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- 99Albert
- 24-01-2025
Modern Chinese politics in a nutshell
This biography is accuracy, relevance and brevity in a driving narrative. Unlike some biographies that drown you in minutiae, this one mentions only the relevant factual ones that illustrate the overall narrative and also identifies the rumours. The latter could well be true, but at very least those mentioned are also illustrative.
Xi's court in Zhong Nan Hai, is as dangerous as Mao's, but far more calculating. He is literally a Caligula, seeing enemies everywhere and "disappearing" anyone, useful or not who throws a shadow on him. This includes movie stars, sports stars, and especially intelligent, successful entrepreneurs like Jack Ma of Ali Barba and Ant Financial. This is not the end of the story. That chapter has yet to be written, and it will be bloody.
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