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The red thread: Xi Jinping’s ideology of power

by Neil Thomas

This week on The ABR Podcast, Neil Thomas reviews On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is shaping China and the world by Kevin Rudd. Thomas explains that even China watchers find it hard to be clear on the thoughts and plans of the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. They disagree, he tells us, on basic, critical questions, such as for how long Xi will rule. ‘Enter Kevin Rudd’, Thomas writes. ‘In his latest book, former prime minister Kevin Rudd adds a worthy new chapter to his life of public service, digesting thousands of pages of “Xi Jinping Thought” so that you do not have to’. Neil Thomas is a Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis in Washington DC. Here is Neil Thomas with 'The red thread: Xi Jinping's ideology of power' by Neil Thomas, published in the December issue of ABR.

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A Personal History of Vision by Luke Fischer

by Geoff Page •

May 2017, no. 391

Geoff Page reviews 'A Personal History of Vision' by Luke Fischer, 'Flute of Milk' by Susan Fealy', and 'Dark Convicts: Ex-slaves on the First Fleet' by Judy Johnson

The UWAP Poetry imprint began in late 2016, and there are already fourteen titles available. To judge from the quality of the three reviewed here, UWAP’s energy and ambition is well-placed ...

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ACT | Three poems by Geoff Page

by Hidden Author •

States of Poetry Podcast - Series Two

Geoff Page reads his poems 'No name or rank supplied', 'Flags', and 'The Notebooks' for ABR's ACT States of Poetry anthology.

<div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390/201-april-2017-no-390/4019-geoff-page-reviews-the-fremantle-press-anthology-of-western-australian-poetry-by-john-kinsella-and-tracy-ryan-eds">The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry</a> <span>edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/2451-geoffpage">Geoff Page</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390" title="April 2017, no. 390">April 2017, no. 390</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390/201-april-2017-no-390/4019-geoff-page-reviews-the-fremantle-press-anthology-of-western-australian-poetry-by-john-kinsella-and-tracy-ryan-eds" title="Geoff Page reviews &#039;The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry&#039; edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/3e96d38302447f1cf99d475dfb5c308d_L.jpg" alt="Geoff Page reviews &#039;The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry&#039; edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div>  <div class="k2IntroText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"> <p><span class="dropcap">T</span>he need for this book is self-evident in a way that a similarly historical anthology for New South Wales or Victorian poetry would not be. From many perspectives, Perth is one of the most remote cities in the world and there is no doubt that the state’s uniqueness is captured in this extensive, though tightly edited, selection. Despite its comparable treatment of ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/december-2016-no-387/188-december-2016-no-387/3706-2016-books-of-the-year">Books of the Year 2016</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">Sheila Fitzpatrick et al.</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/december-2016-no-387" title="December 2016, no. 387">December 2016, no. 387</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p>Originally published in German, Albrecht Dümling’s <em><a href="https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/47114" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Vanished Musicians: Jewish refugees in Australia</a></em> (Peter Lang), a fascinating compendium of Jewish musicians who found refuge in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, is now available in Australian Diana K. Weekes’s excellent translation ...</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/december-2016-no-387/188-december-2016-no-387/3706-2016-books-of-the-year">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/october-2016-no-385/186-october-2016-no-385/3607-geoff-page-reviews-iron-in-the-blood-a-musical-adaptation-of-robert-hughes-s-the-fatal-shore-composed-by-jeremy-rose">Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s 'The Fatal Shore'</a> <span>by Jeremy Rose</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/2451-geoffpage">Geoff Page</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/october-2016-no-385" title="October 2016, no. 385">October 2016, no. 385</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/october-2016-no-385/186-october-2016-no-385/3607-geoff-page-reviews-iron-in-the-blood-a-musical-adaptation-of-robert-hughes-s-the-fatal-shore-composed-by-jeremy-rose" title="Geoff Page reviews &#039;Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s The Fatal Shore&#039; composed by Jeremy Rose"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/6f7f325422aed3822cba90f577abcf28_L.jpg" alt="Geoff Page reviews &#039;Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s The Fatal Shore&#039; composed by Jeremy Rose" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><em>Iron in the Blood</em> is jazz musician Jeremy Rose's ambitious and heartfelt tribute to Robert Hughes's<em> The Fatal Shore</em> (1986). Although some academic historians may demur<em> ...</em></p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/october-2016-no-385/186-october-2016-no-385/3607-geoff-page-reviews-iron-in-the-blood-a-musical-adaptation-of-robert-hughes-s-the-fatal-shore-composed-by-jeremy-rose">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3558-geoff-page-is-poet-of-the-month">Geoff Page is Poet of the Month</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">Australian Book Review</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384" title="September 2016, no. 384">September 2016, no. 384</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3558-geoff-page-is-poet-of-the-month" title="Geoff Page is Poet of the Month"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/705308bcb7167f21bccc1d972404a51d_L.jpg" alt="Geoff Page is Poet of the Month" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage"><p>Public oratory and prose fiction both need a significant degree of rhythm, but for almost all poetry (including free verse) rhythm is indispensable. Both genres use the 'sound effects' of assonance, alliteration, etc., but verbal music is more important to poetry than to prose.</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3558-geoff-page-is-poet-of-the-month">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3557-dennis-haskell-reviews-dawn-the-proof-by-tony-page-headwaters-by-anthony-lawrence-and-gods-and-uncles-by-geoff-page">Dawn the Proof</a> <span>by Tony Page</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/2386-dennishaskell">Dennis Haskell</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384" title="September 2016, no. 384">September 2016, no. 384</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3557-dennis-haskell-reviews-dawn-the-proof-by-tony-page-headwaters-by-anthony-lawrence-and-gods-and-uncles-by-geoff-page" title="Dennis Haskell reviews &#039;Dawn the Proof&#039; by Tony Page, &#039;Headwaters&#039; by Anthony Lawrence, and &#039;Gods and Uncles&#039; by Geoff Page"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/dfd6ff2830668e832bc18393578d999f_L.jpg" alt="Dennis Haskell reviews &#039;Dawn the Proof&#039; by Tony Page, &#039;Headwaters&#039; by Anthony Lawrence, and &#039;Gods and Uncles&#039; by Geoff Page" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><span class="dropcap">T</span>he last two lines of Tony Page's <em>Dawn the Proof</em> (Hybrid Publishers, $25 pb, 87 pp, 9781925272239) ask 'how to seize / the grains of now'. One of Page's (implicit) ...</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3557-dennis-haskell-reviews-dawn-the-proof-by-tony-page-headwaters-by-anthony-lawrence-and-gods-and-uncles-by-geoff-page">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/may-2016-no-381/182-may-2016-no-381/3276-geoff-page-reviews-jack-mollie-her-by-jordie-albiston">Jack & Mollie (& Her)</a> <span>by Jordie Albiston</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/2451-geoffpage">Geoff Page</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/may-2016-no-381" title="May 2016, no. 381">May 2016, no. 381</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/may-2016-no-381/182-may-2016-no-381/3276-geoff-page-reviews-jack-mollie-her-by-jordie-albiston" title="Geoff Page reviews &#039;Jack &amp; Mollie (&amp; Her)&#039; by Jordie Albiston"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/86e782db385e82c686a4da04c4c8d06f_L.jpg" alt="Geoff Page reviews &#039;Jack &amp; Mollie (&amp; Her)&#039; by Jordie Albiston" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div>  <div class="k2IntroText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"> <p><span class="dropcap">A</span>lthough William Carlos Williams, with some accuracy, claimed that ‘every’ poem is an ‘experiment’, the number of successful experiments is relatively rare. Jordie Albiston’s new ‘long poem’ or ‘verse novel’ (call it what you will) is triumphantly experimental in both technique and content.</p> <p>In technique, Albiston has done several things whi ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-act/192-states-of-poetry-2017-act/3871-states-of-poetry-2017-act-no-name-or-rank-supplied-by-geoff-page">States of Poetry 2017 - ACT | 'No name or rank supplied' by Geoff Page</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/2451-geoffpage">Geoff Page</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series Two">States of Poetry ACT - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <h3>No name or rank supplied</h3> <p>We’re looking down the barrel of<br />a.303 Lee Enfield,<br />standard issue through until</p> <p>the early 1960s.<br />The others in the firing squad<br />have all been cropped away, it seems.</p> <p>He is an officer, we think –<br />that small, smart cap betrays him.<br />His hair’s well-trimmed and business-like;</p> <p>he seems somehow unduly clea ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-act/192-states-of-poetry-2017-act/3878-states-of-poetry-2017-act-patriotism-by-geoff-page">States of Poetry 2017 - ACT | 'Patriotism' by Geoff Page</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/2451-geoffpage">Geoff Page</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series Two">States of Poetry ACT - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <h3>Patriotism</h3> <p>‘... the last refuge of a scoundrel’.<br /><em>                                   Samuel Johnson</em></p> <p>But here and there a whisk of it<br />does no essential harm:</p> <p>an accidental win or t ... </div> </div> </div>  </div>  <div class="k2Pagination"> <ul class="pagination"><li><a title="Start" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=0">Start</a></li><li><a title="Prev" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=10">Prev</a></li><li><a title="1" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=0">1</a></li><li><a title="2" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=10">2</a></li><li class="active"><a>3</a></li><li><a title="4" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=30">4</a></li><li><a title="5" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=40">5</a></li><li><a title="6" href="/podcast/tag/Geoff%20Page?start=50">6</a></li><li><a title="7" 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