Could you give us some Cliff's notes, bullet points, or a summary?
Not really. It's just a somewhat detailed history from when Mao took over.
A connection I didn't know between Mao and Xi's family.
How the communists in the 1930's held areas fighting the national army, and the army was beating them, driving them, numbering 130,000 troops and military, into one area they were surrounded and starving. Mao had pushed guerilla tactics, the group disagreed and demoted him.
The group broke through the troops at great cost, and 86,000 were moving in the country, under attack, more and more were killed. Finally they decided Mao was right and made him the military leader. Mao took them thousands of miles in the hills to another location, finally only 5,000 survived, but they did instead of all of them being wiped out.
It recounts how Mao gained power, as leader how he only appointed loyalist who were not competent (should sound familiar with trump), Xi's father was a high level member who was denounced like many as a traitor and imprisoned 8 years, Xi was a teenager moved from elite education in Beijing to menial labor in the country.
Xi was what was called a "Princeling" as the son of one of the 5,000, who were considered elite - sort of like Castro's small band - and after Mao, Xi was able to go to rural areas and use that to get offices and grow power.
It says Xi learned a lesson about how power was the thing that mattered from the experience.
I haven't finished it yet, but it's story like that. It discusses the history of how after Mao, the culture was to not allow another dictator - but that Xi is the first leader to break that, and that he is "Mao 2.0" duplicating much of things he did, including being the first to get more than two terms.