For over a decade, sole ruler Xi Jinping has been shaping the fate of the People’s Republic. His four-volume magnum opus is simply called „The Governance of China.“ While the rule of his great predecessors Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping is today dressed up as a „time of revolution“ or „time of reforms,“ Xi uses a more modest but overarching term for his China policy. He has it called the „new era“ 新时代, a synonym for the entire period.