As Isaac Stone Fish at Foreign Policy reports, "This year, the Communist Party's Central Committee took the unprecedented step of issuing a list of the 10 books most popular among the Chinese leadership. Officials chose them from a collection of 111 books that a government think tank had said they -- and, by implication, the country's 1.4 billion people -- should read."
The 10 best books, according to China's ruling elite
By James Griffiths, December 9, 2013
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