Books by Xuezhi Guo
“His main argument is that in Chinese politics, from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, there’s an enduring tendency to gravitate towards one core leader…collective leadership is actually an abnormality. You have collective leadership only when the top leader fails to really consolidate power… so that you have different factions competing with each other. Elsewhere in Chinese political culture, with Confucianism and Legalism and ancient political thought, looking up at one core leader is what supplies stability. The emperor, the wise sage—he can maintain order. So, Guo argues, Xi Jinping being able to concentrate power and now being formally at the top of the party actually has a lot of cultural legitimacy—because Chinese political culture really supports the idea of having one core leader.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Xuezhi Guo 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.
