Xi Jinping, Stefan Aust
Xi Jinping, Stefan Aust
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Xi Jinping
The Most Powerful Man in the World

Author: Stefan Aust, Adrian Geiges

Narrator: Peter Noble

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/21/2023


Synopsis

If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately poor rural regions where families still struggle with malnutrition.

Today, Xi Jinping faces a series of monumental challenges that would make other global leaders tremble: a trade war with the USA, political unrest in Hong Kong, accusations of genocide in Xinjiang, stuttering economic growth, and a devastating global pandemic that originated inside China.

But who is Xi Jinping and what does he really want? To rejuvenate China and bring economic prosperity to all its people? To challenge American supremacy and turn China into the world's dominant power? Avoiding both sycophantic flattery and outright condemnation, this new biography by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges gets inside the head of one of the world's most mysterious leaders. Skillfully unraveling the hidden story of Xi Jinping's life and career, from his early childhood to his rise to the pinnacles of the Party and the State, they flesh out his views and uncover how he became the most powerful man in the world.

About Stefan Aust

Stefan Aust is the former editor-in-chief of Germany's leading news magazine Der Spiegel and the author of numerous bestselling books, including The Baader-Meinhof Complex.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Niklas on November 17, 2021

This book provides a look into the early years of Xi Jinping as well as his career. It also sheds light on how China approaches problems and how it sees the rest of the world. It's written in a very captivating style so reading it went by fast. Another fact which made me want to read this book is th......more

Goodreads review by Filip on February 19, 2024

It isn't exactly a book about Xi Jinping, but about the politics of China in the last 50 years or so, with special focus on Xi's rise to power. It makes for a bit of chaotic read, but then again, seeing how I'm not an expert of the history of Communist China (or China in general), I did welcome this......more

Goodreads review by Juri on January 12, 2025

Die Autoren beschweren sich ständig darüber, dass der "Westen" angeblich immer nur mit sich selbst und seinen kleinen unwichtigen Problemen (Klima, Work-Life-Balance etc.) beschäftigt sei. Und das in einer Xi Jinping Biografie? Da reflektiert wohl jemand. Fridays-for-Future bashing und die anderen ü......more

Goodreads review by Chris on November 10, 2024

An interesting read, if a little shallow at times......more

Goodreads review by Rasmus on October 20, 2023

Contains several interesting interviews with top officials from China but no interview with Xi Jinping (at least not by the authors). It is written with negative perspective on Germany and rather positive perspective on China. It is only at the end where the gloves comes off and the real critism of......more