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Xi Jinping, China, and the United States

Chi Wang

As Xi Jinping begins his historic third term in office, many will try to understand Xi as both person and leader. This book examines Xi Jinping from his childhood during China’s Cultural Revolution all the way through his second term as China’s paramount leader. The author analyzes not only Xi Jinping’s life and leadership but also Western perceptions, assessments, and interpretations of Xi and how this has affected China’s dynamic relationship with the West. It will trace how early and mostly optimistic expectations gave way first to denial or attempts to explain away his consolidation of power and then reshaped into the assessment of a new China under a powerful Xi. The book gives special attention to the vital US–China relationship and the dynamics between Xi and the US leadership.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 438 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66693-695-7 • Hardback • May 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, History / Asia / China

Chi Wang is president of the US–China Policy Foundation.

Part I: Introducing Xi Jinping

Chapter 1: Xi’s Family and Childhood

Chapter 2: Xi’s Early Career: 1980‒2006

Chapter 3: Xi’s Rise to Power 2007‒2013

Part II: China Under Xi Jinping

Chapter 4: Xi Takes the Reins: 2013‒2014

Chapter 5: Xi’s Aggressive China: 2015‒2017

Chapter 6: Xi Without Limits: 2018‒2020

Chapter 7: Crisis and Opportunity: 2020

Chapter 8: Xi Resurgent: 2021‒2022

Part III: Xi Jinping and the US

Chapter 9: Bush and Obama: 2007‒2016

Chapter 10: Trump and Biden: 2017‒2022

Identifying the key elements shaping a leader’s foreign and domestic behavior is tricky. This is especially so in the case of China’s Xi Jinping. Are early childhood and adolescent experiences key in explaining Xi’s increasingly assertive domestic and foreign policy stance? Policy objectives? Or, naked personal power interests? Has the mix of considerations changed over time as Xi has moved from trying to survive as a subordinate, to competing for supreme power as a rising party member, to maintaining and enhancing power once achieved? Professor Wang Chi’s masterful Xi Jinping, China, and the United States cautions analysts never to underestimate the role of self-interest.


— David M. Lampton, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies


Xi Jinping, China, and the United States is a uniquely comprehensive and meticulously documented biography of the world’s most powerful national leader, China’s Xi Jinping. Drawing on a remarkable range of foreign reporting and analysis, Dr. Wang has brought together in one volume real-time interpretations of Xi’s formation as a youth, rise in the Party, political machinations, foreign policies, and relationships with U.S. Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden. This is required reading for students of contemporary China and its foreign relations.


— Chas W. Freeman, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing (1981-1984)


Xi Jinping, China, and the United States

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Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • As Xi Jinping begins his historic third term in office, many will try to understand Xi as both person and leader. This book examines Xi Jinping from his childhood during China’s Cultural Revolution all the way through his second term as China’s paramount leader. The author analyzes not only Xi Jinping’s life and leadership but also Western perceptions, assessments, and interpretations of Xi and how this has affected China’s dynamic relationship with the West. It will trace how early and mostly optimistic expectations gave way first to denial or attempts to explain away his consolidation of power and then reshaped into the assessment of a new China under a powerful Xi. The book gives special attention to the vital US–China relationship and the dynamics between Xi and the US leadership.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 438 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66693-695-7 • Hardback • May 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
    Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, History / Asia / China
Author
Author
  • Chi Wang is president of the US–China Policy Foundation.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part I: Introducing Xi Jinping

    Chapter 1: Xi’s Family and Childhood

    Chapter 2: Xi’s Early Career: 1980‒2006

    Chapter 3: Xi’s Rise to Power 2007‒2013

    Part II: China Under Xi Jinping

    Chapter 4: Xi Takes the Reins: 2013‒2014

    Chapter 5: Xi’s Aggressive China: 2015‒2017

    Chapter 6: Xi Without Limits: 2018‒2020

    Chapter 7: Crisis and Opportunity: 2020

    Chapter 8: Xi Resurgent: 2021‒2022

    Part III: Xi Jinping and the US

    Chapter 9: Bush and Obama: 2007‒2016

    Chapter 10: Trump and Biden: 2017‒2022

Reviews
Reviews
  • Identifying the key elements shaping a leader’s foreign and domestic behavior is tricky. This is especially so in the case of China’s Xi Jinping. Are early childhood and adolescent experiences key in explaining Xi’s increasingly assertive domestic and foreign policy stance? Policy objectives? Or, naked personal power interests? Has the mix of considerations changed over time as Xi has moved from trying to survive as a subordinate, to competing for supreme power as a rising party member, to maintaining and enhancing power once achieved? Professor Wang Chi’s masterful Xi Jinping, China, and the United States cautions analysts never to underestimate the role of self-interest.


    — David M. Lampton, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies


    Xi Jinping, China, and the United States is a uniquely comprehensive and meticulously documented biography of the world’s most powerful national leader, China’s Xi Jinping. Drawing on a remarkable range of foreign reporting and analysis, Dr. Wang has brought together in one volume real-time interpretations of Xi’s formation as a youth, rise in the Party, political machinations, foreign policies, and relationships with U.S. Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden. This is required reading for students of contemporary China and its foreign relations.


    — Chas W. Freeman, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing (1981-1984)


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