Party of One

        華爾街日報記者王春翰，以全新視角探討習近平的政治生涯和未來動向，揭開圍繞中國共產黨與習近平的層層謎團
 
        習近平早期在組織內隱藏自己的企圖，曾讓許多政治觀察家誤以為，他將帶領中國走向一個政治上更開放、法律制度上更完整、經濟上更面向自由市場的社會。最終他成功奪下權力的寶座、推動廢除國家主席的任期限制，開啟了中國中央集權時代，也喚醒人們對毛澤東時期獨裁統治的恐懼記憶。如今，在習的統治之下，中國正在挑戰西方國家在全球事務上的領先地位和民主系統。
 
        在本書中，華爾街日報記者王春瀚憑藉其對中國政壇長期而深入的觀察，完整記錄下習近平運用強硬手段剷除異己、對香港和新疆進行鎮壓、對台灣不斷增強的威脅恫嚇，以及習對新冠肺炎疫情的處理，在內政和外交上所引發的效應。
 
        王春瀚2019年因報導內容揭露習近平親戚罪行，而被中國政府拒絕展延簽證期限後，他移居至香港，繼續報導中國政治圈的一舉一動。奠基於他對中國的第一手觀察，包含對中國共產黨內部人士的採訪、來自學者與外交官的洞見，以及對官方演講內容和文件的分析，帶來這部全面、清晰解析習近平的精彩作品，闡述了習近平是如何在他的政黨、國家，甚至世界，點燃了恐懼與狂熱，而他對中國未來的想像，又將如何改變全球的未來。(文/博客來編譯)

　　Party of One shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world’s most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has centralized decision-making powers, encouraged a cult of personality around himself, and moved toward indefinite rule by scrapping presidential term limits—stirring fears of a return to a Mao-style dictatorship. Today, the party of Xi favors political zeal over technical expertise, trumpets its faith in Marxism, and proclaims its reach into every corner of Chinese society with Xi portraits and hammer-and-sickle logos. Under Xi, China has challenged Western preeminence in global affairs and cast its authoritarian system as a model of governance worthy of international emulation.
 
　　As a China reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Chun Han Wong has chronicled Xi Jinping’s hard-line strategy for crushing dissent against his strongman rule, his political repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and his increasingly coercive efforts to reel in the island democracy of Taiwan, as well as the domestic and diplomatic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. When the Chinese government refused to renew Wong’s press credentials and forced him to leave mainland China in 2019, he moved to Hong Kong to continue covering Chinese politics and its autocratic turn under Xi. Now, Wong has drawn on his years of firsthand reporting across China—including conversations with party insiders, insights from scholars and diplomats, and analyses of official speeches and documents—to create a lucid and historically rooted account of China’s leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his party, his nation, and beyond.
 
　　Timely, revelatory, and important, Party of One explains how the future Xi imagines for China will reshape the future of the entire world.
 
　　Chun Han Wong has covered China for the Wall Street Journal since 2014. He was part of a team of reporters named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their coverage of China’s autocratic turn under Xi Jinping. As a Journal correspondent in Beijing and Hong Kong, Wong has written widely on subjects spanning elite politics, Communist Party doctrine, human and labor rights, and defense and diplomatic affairs. Born and raised in Singapore, Wong is a native speaker of English and Mandarin Chinese. He studied international history at the London School of Economics, where he graduated with first-class honors and won the Derby Bryce Prize.