{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Party\u2019s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping","description":" The Party\u2019s Interests Come First is the first English-language biography of Xi Zhongxun, the father of China\u2019s current leader, Xi Jinping. It is both a story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People\u2019s Republic of China and a personal account of developing one\u2019s own sense of identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian introduces Xi Zhongxun. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, worked closely with top leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang, and oversaw the Special Economic Zones that launched China\u2019s reform era.  In an interview conducted on August 21, 2025, Joseph Torigian, in conversation with Victor Shih, explores the organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the Chinese Communist Party through the life of Xi Zhongxun \u2013 and the huge cost in human suffering that accompanies it. About this program ","author_name":"The US-China Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/chinapodcast.libsyn.com","html":"