A common characteristic of famous politicians and thinkers in both ancient and modern China is that they can tell stories well.
General Secretary Xi Jinping is also a great storyteller. Whether it is speeches at meetings or visits, talks at research forums, articles in newspapers and periodicals, he always manages to use the stories he tells to convey a deeper meaning, and to move people. These stories are concrete yet vivid; ordinary yet profound; and they also reflect Xi Jinping’s deep humanist feelings and philosophical heritage, becoming a distinctive striking feature of his leadership style.
This book collects stories from Xi Jinping’s hundreds of speeches and articles that embody his concepts, his ideas, and his strategies for governing the country, presented in their entirety and accompanied by commentary from Beijing People’s Daily Publishing. These stories carry General Secretary Xi Jinping’s profound reflections on domestic and foreign affairs, diplomacy and national defense, as well as party, state and military governance. They are deeply rooted in Chinese wisdom and reflect the Chinese way of life.
This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and development, and the principles of China’s participating in global governance and cooperating with other countries to build a community of common destiny. The respective stories not only convey abstract and profound concepts of governance in comparatively straightforward language, but also create an immediate emotional connection between the narrator and the listener.
In addition to the original stories, extensive additional materials are provided to convey the original context in which each was told, including when and to whom Xi told it, helping readers attain a deeper, intuitive understandingof their relevance.
[Springer, Germany]
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...The Party-state media seemed to feed — and of course this was by design — on the character and cleverness of the general secretary, who according to the narrative had a genius for revolutionary ideas, delivered in language that could be down-to-earth, profound, or shrewdly historical.
Another example of this mode of publish-and-promote as a means of charismatic power construction was Xi Jinping Tells Stories (习近平讲故事), released in June 2017. The book, which, according to the People’s Daily (also the publisher) “selects more than 100 stories that embody his new concepts and philosophy for governing the nation,” again treated Xi as a font of Chinese wisdom (中国智慧).
(David Bandurski, Director of CMP Media)
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