WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (WJSS)
ISSN: 2504 – 9232
Volume 9, No. 2, September, 2024
Pages 225-228
DOI: 10.36108/wjss/4202.90.0201
BOOK REVIEW
THE XI JINPING EFFECT
HSIN-HSUAN LIN AND JUDE COCODIA
This book adopts a Critical Analytical approach as it examines the impact of Xi Jinping on institutions and life in China and beyond. While this is explicit as I browsed through the chapters, I realised too that in conjuring a larger-than-life status, President Xi Jinping is, of himself, an institution, and one that compels changes to people’s lives and ideologies. In these chapters, we find the book taking a social constructivist view of Xi Jinping’s leadership and legacy that are linked to Han-centrism. Through these approaches, I agree with the editors, that no book yet analyses President Xi Jinping’s person, leadership and influence as comprehensively as this book does.
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