JSPES, Vol. 44, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2019)
pp. 161-173

Book Review Article: The Governance of China: Speeches by President Xi Jinping

Dwight D. Murphey
Wichita State University, retired

Much that is complex and even perplexing shines through the mixture of benevolence, aspiration, ideology and ideological confusion that is found in this compilation of speeches delivered between November 2012 and June 2014 by China’s President Xi Jinping. Xi was recently given a virtual life-tenure at the top of China’s power structure, which underscores the importance of his thinking not only to the Chinese themselves but to the rest of the world. In this book review article, we hope to give the reader both an informative report of Xi’s thinking and some commentary that will place it is context.