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Podcast: NBN Book of the Day
Episode: Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Description: Often I will find in a chronology or a biography, you know, official materials, evidence that because I have other evidence, it’s meaningful in a way that maybe the people who edited those collections might not have expected.
That’s the idea of mosaic theory – you bring together many pieces of evidence, even small ones, to bring the full meaning out.
— Joseph Torigian, NBN interview May 2025
In his new book, The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford University Press, 2025), Joseph Torigian leads readers deep into the...