Author: David Bandurski

David L. Bandurski is co-director of the China Media Project, a research program in partnership with the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, and currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village (2016), a book of reportage on the plight of rural communities in China’s booming cities. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of PEN Hong Kong, the local Hong Kong chapter of PEN International.
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Storyteller-in-Chief

David Bandurski

Vanity publishing with Chinese characteristics – David Bandurski

To Xi Jinping’s growing list of titles as Chairman of Everything for Life, add one more: Storyteller-in-Chief. In the five years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, Xi has authored no less than four books, including The Governance of China (the two-volume tome on his ruling vision that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg made such a show of placing on his desk), Up and Out of Poverty (a collection of his writings through the 1990s), The Chinese Dream and the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation (which helps readers “come to understand the true nature of the Chinese Dream”), and the tenderly titled Knowing Deeply: Loving Keenly (a book of his writings from the early 1980s).