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Ex-Chinese leader publishes travel bookThis forum post is dated 10/11/06. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. China - Safety
| Ex-Chinese leader publishes travel book BEIJING - He speaks English and shows it off by reciting the Gettysburg Address. Now former President Jiang Zemin is adopting another Western custom: the post-retirement publishing binge.Ahead of his 80th birthday Thursday, government publishers have released a retrospective on Jiang's foreign travels - the closest thing yet to a Chinese presidential memoir - and a three-volume set of speeches, letters and decrees. The books are a testament to Jiang's hybrid persona during his time in office as leader of a communist dictatorship that crushed any challenge to its monopoly on power and a globe-trotting bon vivant who tried to get Britain's Queen Elizabeth to sing karaoke. |
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