EAN: 9781035413485

SHERIDAN MICHAEL THE RED EMPEROR

'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten  last
governor of Hong Kong    The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping  the
man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a
'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families  the young Xi was exiled to the
countryside during the Cultural Revolution. He fought his way back to the top by stealth 
privilege and guile. In 2012  following the spectacular fall of his rival Bo Xilai  Xi Jinping
became the leader of China.  In a compulsively readable narrative  veteran foreign
correspondent Michael Sheridan takes the reader from the poor  isolated country of Xi's youth
to the military and economic superpower of today. In Xi's new China  family mafias struggle for
power amid murder  corruption and sex scandals as ministers and generals vanish in purges. No
one is safe in his techno-security state. Xi is an absolute ruler whose word is law on
everything from war and peace to the ruthless campaign against Covid-19. He aims to dominate
world trade  to defeat Western democracy and to make China the supreme power in the East. A
loner and a risk-taker  he is the most consequential leader of our time.  Drawing on intimate
stories from the closed world of China's leading families and two decades of first-hand
reporting  Michael Sheridan sheds new light on the history and politics of China. The book
reveals that behind the façade of the Chinese Communist Party there is a modern dynasty and a
new emperor.

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