A elite do atraso vs. Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume 1

A Bridge of Ideas

Despite originating from starkly different intellectual landscapes – Jessé Souza's socio-political critique of Brazil and Xi Jinping's pronouncements on Chinese governance – both books, in your reading, reveal a profound shared concern with the construction and maintenance of 'national identity' through hierarchical social ordering. You've unknowingly identified a parallel in how both authors, though with drastically different ends, dissect the mechanisms by which groups are defined, mobilized, and solidified against perceived internal or external threats, offering a surprisingly unified lens on the universal human impulse to define 'us' versus 'them'.