The Party's Interests Come First

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"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"--

Über den Autor

Joseph Torigian is Associate Professor at the School of International Service at American University and a Research Fellow at the Hoover History Lab at Stanford University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. The Party's Interests Come First

PART I THE PARTY'S "FOOTHOLD": The Shaanxi Years

2. The Young Wanderer

3. Who Saved Whom: The Rise of the Base Areas and the Arrival of Mao

4. The Yan'an Era

5. Love and Revolution

6. War on the Nationalists and the Peasants

PART II BUILDING THE NEW REGIME

7. King of the Northwest

8. Political Means, with Military Force as a Supplement: Ethnic Minorities in the Northwest

9. Ideology and Power Politics in the Beijing of the Early People's Republic

10. The Perils of Intimacy at Home and Abroad

11. "Military Suppression Combined with Political Struggle": The Radicalization of Ethnic and Religious Policy

12. Home Life in the Capital

PART III CATASTROPHE

13. The Great Leap Forward

14. Liu Zhidan

15. The Cultural Revolution

16. The Xi Family Slowly Rebuilds

PART IV THE PARTY'S "LAUNCHPAD": The Guangdong Years

17. Facing the Consequences of the Cultural Revolution

18. Blazing a Bloody Trail

19. Opening to the West

PART V TRYING TO SAVE THE REVOLUTION

20. A New Order at the Secretariat and the National People's Congress

21. Princeling Politics

22. The United Front Restored and Restrained

23. A New Era in Ethnic and Religious Affairs

24. "Things Were Going So Well!"

25. Xi and the Fate of Global Communism

PART VI CATASTROPHE AGAIN

26. "It Is Necessary to Also Have a Spiritual Civilization!"

27. The Deep Waters of Zhongnanhai

28. Tiananmen Square

29. The Final Years

30. Fathers and Sons

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781503634756
ISBN-10:	1503634752
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Torigian, Joseph
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 155 x 51 mm
Von/Mit:	Joseph Torigian
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.06.2025
Gewicht:	1,089 kg

Artikel-ID: 128667443

Über den Autor

Joseph Torigian is Associate Professor at the School of International Service at American University and a Research Fellow at the Hoover History Lab at Stanford University.

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