The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo
How a Murder Exposed the Cracks in China's Leadership: Penguin Specials
by John Garnaut
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Pub Date Nov 14 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2014
Description
When news of the murder trial of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Xilai's
wife reached Western attention, it was apparent that, as with many events in the
secretive upper echelons of Chinese politics, there was more to the story. Now,
as the Party's 18th National Congress oversees the biggest leadership transition
in decades, and installs the Bo family's long-time rival Xi Jinping as
president, China's rulers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep their
poisonous internal divisions behind closed doors.
Bo Xilai's breathtaking
fall from grace is an extraordinary tale of excess, murder, defection, political
purges and ideological clashes going back to Mao himself, as the princeling sons
of the revolutionary heroes ascend to control of the Party. China watcher John
Garnaut examines how Bo's stellar rise through the ranks troubled his more
reformist peers, as he revived anti-'capitalist roader' sentiment, even while
his family and associates enjoyed the more open economy's opportunities. Amid
fears his imminent elevation to the powerful Standing Committee was leading
China towards another destructive Cultural Revolution, have his opponents seized
their chance now to destroy Bo and what he stands for? The trigger was his wife
Gu Kailai's apparently paranoid murder of an English family friend, which
exposed the corruption and brutality of Bo's outwardly successful administration
of the massive city of Chongqing. It also led to the one of the highest-level
attempted defections in Communist China's history when Bo's right-hand man,
police chief Wang Lijun, tried to escape the ruins of his sponsor's
reputation.
Garnaut explains how this incredible glimpse into the very
personal power struggles within the CCP exposes the myth of the unified
one-party state. With China approaching super-power status, today's leadership
shuffle may set the tone for international relations for decades. Here, Garnaut
reveals a particularly Chinese spin on the old adage that the personal is
political.
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EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781742538808 |
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