Li Xueren/Xinhua via Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping arriving on a visit to Tibet, July 21, 2021 Translator’s Note: Xu Zhangrun was, until last year, a professor of jurisprudence at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, one of China’s most prestigious colleges. A celebrated lecturer and author of numerous works on the law, he was a noted essayist, and also the editor of a major series of books on legal reform. In July 2018, Xu published “Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes,” a point-by-point critique of the policies of Xi Jinping’s government. Since then,…
Xi’s China, the Handiwork of an Autocratic Roué | by Xu Zhangrun | The New York Review of Books
