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After speaking about his award-winning history of Hong Kong, The Gate to China: a New History of the People’s Republic of Hong Kong, during EA Festival 2022, veteran foreign affairs journalist and critically acclaimed historian Michael Sheridan is back in East Anglia to introduce his new book, The Red Emperor, a biography of Xi Jinping based on two decades of first-hand reporting including “intimate stories from the closed world of China’s leading families.”
About The Red Emperor
In a compulsively readable narrative that was serialised by the Daily Mail, Michael Sheridan takes the reader from the poor, isolated country of Xi’s youth to the military and economic superpower of today. In Xi’s new China, family mafias struggle for power amid murder, corruption and sex scandals as ministers and generals vanish in purges. No one is safe in his techno-security state. Xi is an absolute ruler whose word is law on everything from war and peace to the ruthless campaign against Covid-19. He aims to dominate world trade, to defeat Western democracy and to make China the supreme power in the East. A loner and a risk-taker, he is the most consequential leader of our time.
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This ticket is for a one-hour talk by Michael Sheridan about his new biography of Xi Jinping, The Red Emperor followed by a glass of champagne during the book signing and a two-course set lunch (with one glass of wine) in The Coffee Room.There will be an optional free tour of the Jockey Club Rooms' art collection, arguably the world's finest collection of equine art including paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings and George Stubbs, at 11 am (no booking required).
Dress code: Smart casual (but no trainers or denim)
