Party Of One: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And China's Superpower Future

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Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Superpower Future of China shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world s most secretive political organisations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi s intentions during his early years in power, projecting onto him their own hopes that he would emerge as a liberal-minded reformer who steers China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics - and overlooking how he has advanced his career by masking his beliefs under a cloak of strategic ambiguity.

Combining narrative drama and incisive analysis, Party of One explains how Xi has shaken up the world s most populous nation with hard-edged authoritarianism, and set this rising superpower on a collision course with Western liberal democracies. Chun Han Wong draws on his years of first-hand reporting across China - spanning conversations with Party insiders and grassroots members, insights from scholars and diplomats who ve studied and interacted closely with the Party bureaucracy, as well as analyses of official speeches and documents - to piece together a broad, digestible account of how Xi inspired fear and fervor in his Party, his nation, and beyond.

About the Author

Wong has been a reporter with The Wall Street Journal since 2010. He has chronicled Xi Jinping s campaign to accrue personal power and enforce Party control-from crackdowns on corruption, dissent and independent scholarship, and efforts to enforce the Party s narratives in online spaces, businesses, schools and even private homes. In August 2019, after the Chinese government refused to renew Chun Han s press credentials, he moved to the Journal s bureau in Hong Kong, where he has continued covering Chinese politics, examining Xi s hard-nosed strategy for crushing dissent in the former British colony, his increasingly coercive efforts to reel in the island democracy of Taiwan, as well as the domestic and diplomatic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic that first emerged in central China. Chun Han was born and raised in Singapore and is a native speaker in English and Mandarin Chinese.