The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of XI Zhongxun, Father of XI Jinping (Hardcover)

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1. The Party's Interests Come First
PART I THE PARTY'S "FOOTHOLD": The Shaanxi Years
2. The Young Wanderer
3. Who Saved Whom: The Rise of the Base Areas and the Arrival of Mao
4. The Yan'an Era
5. Love and Revolution
6. War on the Nationalists and the Peasants
PART II BUILDING THE NEW REGIME
7. King of the Northwest
8. Political Means, with Military Force as a Supplement: Ethnic Minorities in the Northwest
9. Ideology and Power Politics in the Beijing of the Early People's Republic
10. The Perils of Intimacy at Home and Abroad
11. "Military Suppression Combined with Political Struggle": The Radicalization of Ethnic and Religious Policy
12. Home Life in the Capital
PART III CATASTROPHE
13. The Great Leap Forward
14. Liu Zhidan
15. The Cultural Revolution
16. The Xi Family Slowly Rebuilds
PART IV THE PARTY'S "LAUNCHPAD": The Guangdong Years
17. Facing the Consequences of the Cultural Revolution
18. Blazing a Bloody Trail
19. Opening to the West
PART V TRYING TO SAVE THE REVOLUTION
20. A New Order at the Secretariat and the National People's Congress
21. Princeling Politics
22. The United Front Restored and Restrained
23. A New Era in Ethnic and Religious Affairs
24. "Things Were Going So Well!"
25. Xi and the Fate of Global Communism
PART VI CATASTROPHE AGAIN
26. "It Is Necessary to Also Have a Spiritual Civilization!"
27. The Deep Waters of Zhongnanhai
28. Tiananmen Square
29. The Final Years
30. Fathers and Sons
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index