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Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments / Ashley Esarey
- The Xi Jinping Effect: An Overview / Ashley Esarey and Rongbin Han
- PART ONE Taking Charge and Building Faith
- 1 Corruption, Faction, and Succession: The Xi Jinping Effect on Leadership Politics / Andrew Wedeman
- 2 Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance / Timothy Cheek
- 3 Fundamentalism with Chinese Characteristics: Xi Jinping and Faith / Gerda Wielander
- PART TWO Socioeconomic Policies to Reduce Poverty
- 4 Xi Jinping Confronts Inequality: Bold Leadership or Modest Steps? / Martin King Whyte
- 5 Pliable Citizenship: Migrant Inequality in the Xi Jinping Era / Alexsia T. Chan
- PART THREE Surveillance and Political Control
- 6 Xi Jinping’s Surveillance State: Merging Digital Technology and Grassroots Organizations / Deng Kai, David Demes, and Chih-Jou Jay Chen
- 7 Love through Fear: The Personality Cult of Xi Jinping in Xinjiang / Musapir
- PART FOUR Foreign and Cross-Strait Relations
- 8 Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Policy: Soft Gets Softer, Hard Gets Harder / Tony Tai-Ting Liu
- 9 Xi Jinping’s Diplomatic New Normal: The Reception in Southeast Asia / Brantly Womack
- Conclusion
- 10 Understanding the Xi Effect: Structure versus Agency / Kevin J. O’Brien
- Chinese Character Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index