Introduction: Power to the party -- Ascendant XI : the party maketh the man -- Gripping iron and leaving marks : the party cleanses itself -- Law is order : the party writes the rules -- Caging the economy : the party gets back to business -- Grasping the pen shaft : the party tells it stories -- All under heaven : the party unites the nation -- Wolf warriors howling : the party remakes the world -- One man's fate : the party after Xi -- Afterword

Drawing on his years of first-hand reporting across China, including insights from scholars and diplomats and analyses of official speeches and documents, a Wall Street Journal correspondent provides a broad, lucid account of China's leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his Party, his nation and beyond