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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Emily Feng: Identity and Belonging In Xi Jingping's China
Description: China’s president, Xi Jinping, has become the most all-powerful leader of the communist state since Mao, and his grip on the country has been strengthened by technology and China’s growing economic and military might. The United States might have belatedly realized it was in a great-powers competition with the People’s Republic, but we might still be failing to understand how Chinese people themselves are dealing with—and resisting—their authoritarian government.Â
Award-winning journalist Emily Feng, author of the new book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, has documented China’s state oppression of those who fail to confor...