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The host highlighted the title as the first English-language biography of Xi Zhongxun, noting that it offers a unique lens on Chinese Communist Party history by focusing on the father of Xi Jinping. They introduced the author, Joseph Torigian, and emphasized that the book aims to illuminate party dynamics through his subject's life.
Episode: Joseph Torigian on Xi Zhongxun and Elite Chinese C...
This was described as the first English-language biography about Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping. The author tried to tell the history of the Chinese Communist Party through the prism of Xi Zhongxun's life.
A new book from Joseph Torigian, a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover History Lab and an associate professor at American University, sheds light on the entity by examining the life of Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping.
We're going to be speaking about his life today to the author of one of his biographies, the first English speaking biography.
And he is the author of a new book, The Party's Interests Come First, The Life of Xi Jinping.
I tried to tell it through the prism of his own father with my book.