The Little Yellow Book: Quotations from Chairman Xi Dada (COLLECTOR'S EDITION)

by Julie O'Yang, Fernando Eloy (Editor)

Overview

Inspired by its famous predecessor Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. With close-ups and a real-time camera running approach, this PALM-SIZED COLLECTOR'S EDITION of Xi Dada's quotes is an attempt to reveal the true intentions of China's leader.

300+ quotations in 182 pages, from one of the most powerful men in the world today. It also includes the story of "Xi Dada", a foreword, more than thirty notes, plus songs and poems. Out of hundreds of speeches, press releases and news, the authors curated this "best of" covering a choice of subjects since the first moment Xi Jinping assumed office, back in the winter of 2012, until December of 2018. An attempt at composition, with close-ups and a real-time camera running approach, about the true intentions of China's leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788797108611
Publisher:	Newmovement Media Ltd.
Publication date:	01/05/2019
Series:	Over-Tone Collection , #1
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Determined dreamer. Published author in English, Dutch, and Chinese. Former People's Liberation Army (PLA) captain turned artist entrepreneur and screenwriter. She survived the Cultural Revolution as a baby. In the 1990's she left for London and has lived and worked in free exile since. As journalist, she creates content covering a range of topics on contemporary China from an insider perspective. In 2008, during the Beijing Olympics, she hosted a 5-episode talk show TV China for Netherlands' national broadcaster and discussed China's media landscape with media stars and experts from both China and the Netherlands. From 2013-2016 she was the Editor-in-Chief of the English/Chinese bilingual magazine XiN , focusing on today's China shaped by consumerism. O'yang contributes a weekly column to Hoje Macau on contemporary Chinese art and culture. In the Foreword, she writes about the purpose of the Little Yellow Book is "to distill the huge volumes of Xi Jinping Thought and pen into a small booklet that even a semi-illiterate could read, memorize, or set to music". She works from Europe (The Netherlands/Denmark).

All-round creative human being. Founder of MaisOriente Film Productions. Born in Lisbon in the spring of 1966, Eloy made his media debut working as radio DJ and journalist for pirate radio stations. During his 1980's "pirate" period, together with 2 other partners, he founded Radio 98, a popular Lisbon youth radio which was later renamed Super FM. In 1996, as producer and promoter, he landed Portugal's first Surfing World Championship event, the Coca-Cola Figueira Pro 96, while he continued working for various media outlets either contributing to and/or coordinating scriptwriting for TV productions. In 2001, he moved to Macau and became a committee member of the Macau East Asian Games Organizing Committee. In 2005, Eloy directed his first documentary, "350 Meters", and in 2006, he produced a series of shows for ESPN Star Sports (Singapore). Ever since then, he has directed documentaries about the city of Macau, corporate films and one short feature, June (2012). From 2016, Eloy has paused actual filming to build a slate of feature films, TV series and stories for online applications with Julie O'yang.

Editorial Reviews

Midwest Book Review:

The Little Yellow Book is a unique and essential contribution to personal, community, college, and university library Contemporary China reference collections and supplemental studies lists.

Martin Alexander, Asia Literary Review:

Distilling Xi Jinping's many thousands of pronouncements into 180 succinct and immediately accessible pages, the authors have curated a mischievous collection of 300 quotations by China's powerful ruler.

User ‘furbowski’ comment on Reddit:

“It’s not a government publication, it’s an absurdist work of art.”

Jim Blackburn, New Eastern Europe:

“Move over Mao, ‘The Little Yellow Book’ is the new ‘Little Red Book’, in that Xi Dada style sweeping China, which highlights the country from the outside in and from the inside out”

Norman Stockwell, The Progressive:

"The China of 2018 is a very different place from the China of a half century ago when a little red book of 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong' was first printed and distributed. But when the Communist Party Congress met in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in late October 2017 and elevated 'Xi Jinping Thought for the New Era of Socialism With Special Chinese Characteristics' to the same level as Mao Zedong Thought in the party constitution, it ushered in a new field of study. Between 1965-1976, billions of copies of 'the little red book' were printed and distributed. Every Chinese worker and peasant farmer was expected to carry a copy, and to study its contents. Countless U.S. leftists bought and carried copies of the English translation as well.

In May 2018, the Communist Party’s propaganda department published a 355-page, 30-chapter book to provide an “in-depth” understanding of Xi Thought. Now Julie O'Yang and Fernando Eloy have gathered their own collection of 300 quotations from Xi Jinping under the title The Little Yellow Book: Quotations from Chairman Xi Dada. Taken from speeches, press releases and news clippings, these quotations are “plucked out of context and strung together without much regard for chronology.” Much like the quotations of Mao, they cover a range of topics and can be read singly or on groupings by topic.

With a combination of humor and a depth of personal knowledge and experience, the authors attempt to shed light on the ideology of the man who may be the world’s most powerful leader, from the globe’s largest country.

Whether studied to gain insight into the new China, or simply read as a curiosity, this book belongs in the collection of anyone interested in China and Chinese politics.

After all, as Chairman Xi himself says in the pages of this small yellow book, “Who on Earth doesn’t love a good leader?"

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