CEO, China
The Rise of Xi Jinping
by Kerry Brown
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Pub Date 14 Jun 2016 | Archive Date 3 Aug 2016
Description
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 China is changing. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, its new General Secretary 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’. With unique insight as one of the few westerners to have met and worked with the leadership in China, Brown investigates Xi’s relationship wih 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.
Advance Praise
‘Kerry Brown is one of our most perceptive and accurate foreign observers of China’
JOHN SIMPSON, BBC
‘A fascinating glimpse into the workings of the Chinese leadership.’
FRANK CHING, First Bureau Chief in Beijing for the Wall Street Journal
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781784533229 |
| PRICE | US$28.00 (USD) |
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For the first time, we can get a glimpse inside the mysterious and illusive inner sanctum of the Chinese Government. Kerry Brown does a great job in explaining the background and context in which the Communist Party operates in 21st century china. As Brown is often quick to reiterate, we cannot use western values, western culture and western history to understand China. Instead we have to understand the history of violence and struggle from which the Communist Party was born. This history is what has shaped so much of what we see as an opaque government. Brown shines a light on the inner workings of each part of the government organisation, but often this reveal more questions than answers. Whilst Brown tries to answer some of them, it leaves the reader pondering what else do we not known about the people that rule the second biggest economy on earth.
