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.
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.
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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Map 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
Map 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
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