Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)

New Books in Biography & Memoir · Jun 5, 2025 · 1h 38m

Often I will find in a chronology or a biography, you know, official materials, evidence that because I have other evidence, it’s meaningful in a way that maybe the people who edited those collections might not have expected.

That’s the idea of mosaic theory – you bring together many pieces of evidence, even small ones, to bring the full meaning out.

— Joseph Torigian, NBN interview May 2025

In his new book, The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford University Press, 2025), Joseph Torigian leads readers deep into the complex work of historical…