It's impossible to say. I mean, just finall, you know, the culture evolution from 19 66 t 76, i was a very specific moment in chinese history and every one has very particular memories of that. Newer leaders don't have that kind of same about their past. And it is worth remembering, perhaps in a general sense, that the current leadership generation, people in their sixties and seventies, is the last one that would have been tnatus an information during the culture revolution.
Writer and academic Kerry Brown's latest book is Xi: A Study in Power, which profiles the policies and personality behind China's leader for the last decade, Xi Jinping. He’s one of the most powerful people in global geopolitics yet in the West seemingly little is known about him. What are his ambitions for China and the rest of the world? Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at Kings College London. He is joined in conversation on the podcast by our host, the historian, author and broadcaster, Rana Mitter.
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