Books by Willy Lam
“It opens by talking about COVID protests in China. China imposed a very draconian lockdown that was also quite arbitrary. It really made people’s lives very difficult for three years. In 2022, there were spontaneous demonstrations, beginning in November, on at least 70 campuses in China. There were also protests in the streets and people were carrying angry messages. A lot of them protested with blank white A4 paper because they didn’t want to get in trouble. Eventually, some people did criticise zero-COVID or were directly critical of Xi saying things like ‘Down with Xi Jinping.’ Willy Lam’s book argues that Xi Jinping’s government and Xi himself have lost the trust of the people.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Willy Lam were recommended
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Xi: A Study in Power
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The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
by Elizabeth Economy -
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Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China’s Ruler for Life
by Willy Lam -
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Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China
by Steven Feldman -
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The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power
by Xuezhi Guo
The best books on Xi Jinping, recommended by Olivia Cheung
The best books on Xi Jinping, recommended by Olivia Cheung
Despite his own and his family’s suffering under Maoism, China’s president, Xi Jinping, has turned his back on some of the reforms of the past four decades, dismantling safeguards designed to ensure that some of the disasters of that era never happen again. Olivia Cheung, a research fellow at SOAS and co-author of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, recommends books to better understand China’s leader and his quest to build a new world order—led by China and admired by all.
