Climbing the Ziggurat
Tom Stevenson: Xi Jinping’s Inheritance, 22 January 2026
The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
by Joseph Torigian.
Stanford, 704 pp., £40, June 2025,978 1 5036 3475 6 Show More
by Joseph Torigian.
Stanford, 704 pp., £40, June 2025,
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
by Michael Sheridan.
Headline, 345 pp., £12.99, July 2025,978 1 0354 1351 5 Show More
by Michael Sheridan.
Headline, 345 pp., £12.99, July 2025,
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World
by Kevin Rudd.
Oxford, 604 pp., £26.99, January 2025,978 0 19 776603 3 Show More
by Kevin Rudd.
Oxford, 604 pp., £26.99, January 2025,
“... Life of Hu Yaobang and Chen Jian’s of Zhou Enlai, both published in 2024.* We can now add Joseph Torigian’s biography of Xi Zhongxun. Such biographies necessarily intervene in several irresolvable contests. Were these men principled revolutionaries or deviants from the true cause? Why were they always purging one another? ... ”
