The Xi Jinping Effect, a new book by Ashley Esarey

The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between China’s most powerful contemporary leader and several areas of political transformation. It illuminates areas in which Xi’s leadership of China has had a large impact as well as areas where Xi’s initiatives have faltered due to unintended consequences, domestic political divisions, or international pushback. Collectively, the book's chapters document the ways in which Xi's neo-totalitarianism has dismantled market reforms, while reconfiguring governance and rewiring China's global connections. Contributions by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists consider such issues as Xi's anticorruption campaign and obsession with ideological governance, state surveillance, the status of ethnic minorities and migrants, income inequality, and China's relations with Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

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