Feng, an NPR correspondent, draws on her years of reporting in China to show how the political sands in China are shifting under Chinese leader Xi Jinping—in particular how Xi’s efforts at nation building leave little space for those who do not naturally fit his concept of Chinese identity. Through a series of intimate portraits, Feng explores some of the political communities and issues that have been most affected by Xi’s tenure: human rights lawyers, ethnic minorities, Hong Kongers, and the