As the Party proceeds to eat the apparatus of government like some unholy cross between the Ouroboros and a human centipede, Xi Jinping steers the ship of state to a new era of "Amazing China."
In this episode of Barbarians at the Gates, Edward Wong of the New York Times joins David and me to discuss Ed's new book, At the Edge of Empire. We discuss frontiers, what the Qing Dynasty means for China, and the different generational perspectives on China's recent past.