The Chinese lives of Vladimir Putin: how the Russian president became China’s ultimate self-help muse - Calvert Journal

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In China, one foreign leader overshadows all others on the country’s bookshelves: Russian President Vladimir Putin. While some tomes are dedicated to government policy and international relations, many more are self-help bibles, portraying the Russian leader as a role model for masculinity. But as Ed Pulford discovers, these books say far more about modern China than they do about Russia today.