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Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
What does it take to steer the world’s most populous nation through the crosscurrents of ambition, fear, and reform? Following the Leader opens a rare window into the minds of China’s political elite, revealing a system where power is personal, loyalty is currency, and the future hinges on a delicate dance between control and change. As rising leaders navigate an unforgiving terrain of ideology, bureaucracy, and global scrutiny, the question looms: who truly leads in a country where obedience and initiative must coexist? Both revealing and restrained, this is a story not just of politics, but of the human instincts that shape empires.
- Originally published: February 3, 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press, 2019
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780520303478
- Access: Members