Under Xi Jinping’s rule, not only has the CCP taken a more extensive role in everyday life, it has redefined the meaning of what it is to be Chinese.

Xi, it seems, sees his fundamental task as freeze-framing, and asserting Communist party control over, what it is to be Chinese. In Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, Emily Feng thankfully provides ...

When Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China in 1949, they imposed a political unity on a fragmented reality. The new PRC stretched from borders ...