Su xinping biography books

Xi Jinping
by
Kerry Brown, Alice Politi
  • LAST REVIEWED: 26 May 2022
  • LAST MODIFIED: 26 May 2022
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199920082-0195

  • Bougan, Francoise. Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping. Translated by Vanessa Lee. London: Hurst, 2018.

    Succinct study, written by an economics correspondent for Le Monde, of Xi’s background and core elements of his political program. It has a particular emphasis on Xi’s cultural interests (which on paper at least seem wide) and his family networks.

  • Brown, Kerry. China’s CEO: The Rise of Xi Jinping. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2016.

    DOI: 10.5040/9781350985650

    An overview of Xi’s biography before coming to power, and then his essential political program since being appointed party boss in 2012. This work focuses in particular on the question of why Xi was able to advance past other contenders for the prime role, and then consolidate power so quickly. This involves looking at his extensive and diverse networks in the army, party elite, but also at the provincial level.

  • Brown, Kerry. “The Powers of Xi Jinping.” Asian Affairs 48.1 (2017): 17–26.

    DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2016.1267435

    An argument addressing the question of what Xi’s powers might be founded on, looking at the role of the party as a knowledge community.

  • Lam, Willy Wo-Lap. Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform or Retrogression? New York and London: Routledge, 2015.

    DOI: 10.4324/9781315719368

    An overview, using largely Chinese source material, of Xi’s rise to power and his first years in office. This is part of a series of books by Lam on elite politics in China over the last thirty years, and is characterized by a succinct, deft analysis and astute political assessment.

  • Party School Interview Records. Xi Jiping de Qi Nian Zhiqing Suiyue. Beijing: Chinese Central Party School Press, 2017.

    (Xi Jinping’s seven years as a sent down youth). The official accou

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    • CEO, China : the rise of Xi Jinping / Kerry Brown.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index.

    The hunt for power in modern China -- Xi the man -- Xi, his enemies and his friends -- The political programme of Xi Jinping -- How does Xi Jinping see the outside world? -- What does Xi want in the next two decades?

    "China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful leaderships modern China has ever seen. In CEO China, the noted China expert Kerry Brown reveals the hidden story of the rise of the man dubbed the 'Chinese Godfather'. Brown investigates his relationship with his revolutionary father, who was expelled by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, his business dealings and allegiances in China's regional power struggles and his role in the internal battle raging between the old men of the Deng era and the new super-rich 'princelings'. Xi Jinping's China is powerful, aggressive and single-minded and this book will become a must-read for the Western world."-- Provided by publisher.

    Xi Jinping

    General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012

    In this Chinese name, the family name is Xí (习).

    Xi Jinping

    Xi in 2024

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    15 November 2012
    Preceded byHu Jintao

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    14 March 2013
    Premier
    Vice President
    Preceded byHu Jintao

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    • Party Commission: 15 November 2012
    • State Commission: 14 March 2013
    Deputy
    Preceded byHu Jintao
    In office
    22 October 2007 – 15 November 2012
    General SecretaryHu Jintao
    Preceded byZeng Qinghong
    Succeeded byLiu Yunshan
    In office
    15 March 2008 – 14 March 2013
    PresidentHu Jintao
    Preceded byZeng Qinghong
    Succeeded byLi Yuanchao
    Born (1953-06-15) 15 June 1953 (age 71)
    Beijing, China
    Political partyCCP (since 1974)
    Spouses

    • Ke Lingling

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      (m. 1979; div. 1982)​
    ChildrenXi Mingze
    Parents
    RelativesQi Qiaoqiao (sister)
    ResidenceZhongnanhai
    Alma materTsinghua University
    AwardsFull list
    Signature
    Websitewww.gov.cn/guoqing/2022-10/23/content_5721018.htm(in Chinese)
    Scientific career
    ThesisA Tentative Study on China's Rural Marketization (2001)
    Doctoral advisorLiu Meixun (刘美珣)
    Simplified Chinese习近平
    Traditional Chinese習近平

    Central institution membership

    • 2007–: 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Politburo Standing Committee
    • 2007–: 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Politburo
    • 2007–2012: Secretary (first-ranked), 17th Central Secretariat
    • 2002–: Full member, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Central Committee
    • 1997–2002: Alternate member, 15th Central Committee
    • 1998–: Delegate, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th National People's Congress

    Leading Groups and Commissions

    • 2018–present: Director, Central Financial and Ec

      Index

      Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium

      Chapter XIX, Part I

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      When I launched  China Heritage in December 2016, I offered some tentative advice about how to deal with and survive the Age of Xi Jinping (see Living with Xi Dada’s China — Making Choices and Cutting Deals). Addressing an audience of (mostly younger) academics, I observed that,

      on balance it is more than likely that most of you will outlive Xi Jinping’s reign… You are engaged with a Chinese world that, despite the best efforts of the Communist Party, its propaganda organs and twisted party-state education and indoctrination, is open to you. Contact with a living, complex, contradictory China is in many ways easier than ever before; you can join in fellowship with friends, colleagues and mentors in the Chinese world. China is silent, but only superficially, and The Silence will hopefully be coterminous with the tenure of Xi Jinping.

      I was still on an unsteady rebound from a bout of cancer and wasn’t sure that I’d see out the first decade of the Xi era. Many people have not been so fortunate and I gravely doubt that I’ll see the end of China’s doleful Chairman of Everything.

      Apart from the historical significance significance of today — 4 May China Youth Festival — the day also happens to be my sixty-ninth birthday. What better way to celebrate personal resilience than by sharing with readers two of my favourite aphoristic essays about survival?

      ***

      ‘The Art of Survival in the Age of Xi Jinping’, is the first part of a two-part chapter on ‘copium’ in China today. Together they form Chapter XIX in the series Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium. First we offer an essay by Li Ao (李敖, 1935-2018), a gadfly littérateur, composed in 1965. This is followed by a meditation on endurance by the translator and playwright Yang Jiang (楊絳, 1911-2016).

      Both of these essays were included in ‘Floating’ 浮, a section in New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chi

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