Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

This book by Emily Feng came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Jeffrey Wasserstrom. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to understand the people who live there, and the way the Chinese state is trying to control them along lines of identity and free expression.\ \ In vivid, cinematic detail, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom tells the stories of nearly two dozen people who are pushing back.