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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2014/12/09/the-growing-cult-of-xi/" target="_blank">The growing cult of Xi</a></h3>
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<p>Source: The Telegraph (12/8/14)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11279204/Xi-Jinping-the-growing-cult-of-Chinas-Big-Daddy-Xi.html">Xi Jinping: the growing cult of China’s ‘Big Daddy Xi’</a><br />
A growing cult of personality surrounds Chinese president Xi Jinping as he seeks to cement his position as a Putin-style strongman determined to realise his “China Dream”<br />
By Tom Phillips, Shanghai</p>
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<div id="attachment_6240" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/files/2014/12/china-jinping_3130908b-pdenqd.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6240 " alt="Two pics of memorabilia and books related to Xi Jinping, the Chinese president known as "Big Daddy Xi" Photo: TOM PHILLIPS" src="https://u.osu.edu/mclc/files/2014/12/china-jinping_3130908b-pdenqd-300x187.jpg" width="300" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Two pics of memorabilia and books related to Xi Jinping, the Chinese president known as “Big Daddy Xi” Photo: TOM PHILLIPS</p></div>
<p>They call him “Xi Dada” or “Big Daddy Xi” and he is rapidly emerging as China’s most powerful leader since Mao.</p>
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<p>Xi Jinping completes two years as president in January and as he enters his third year in office a growing cult of personality is being built around the 61-year-old as he fights to stamp his authority onto the Chinese Communist Party.</p>
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<p>There are love songs about Xi, odes to Xi, academic papers about Xi, cartoons of Xi and even action figures of Xi.</p>
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<p>A Xi-related publishing blitz has seen at least seven major books hit Chinese shelves since late 2013, including collections of Xi Jinping’s thoughts, his speeches, anecdotes, quotes, newspaper editorials and work reports. <a href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2014/12/09/the-growing-cult-of-xi/#more-6239" class="more-link">(more…)</a></div>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on December 9, 2014 </div>
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