They’re set to govern for the next 10 years. The son of revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the ...

Xi was born into privilege, the son of Xi Zhongxun, a commander turned propagandist who, because his wife often traveled for her job at the Marxism-­Leninism Institute, was unusually prominent in ...

Xi Zhongxun was a successful general and governor of Guangdong Province until the Cultural Revolution. Zhou Enlai later resurrected and rescued Xi's father from ignominy. Reversing the elder Xi's ...

Video recorded in 1983 shows Kim Jong Il and Xi Zhongxu sitting together during a diplomatic visit. Their sons, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, are now the leaders of North Korea and China.

because his father Xi Zhongxun had fought side by side with Mao Zedong. As a «princeling,» Xi exudes a deep self-confidence, a composure, even a certain cold-bloodedness, say many people who ...

Born in Beijing in 1953, Xi enjoyed a privileged youth as the second son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier and guerrilla commander in the civil war that brought Mao Zedong’s communist rebels ...

They’re set to govern for the next 10 years. The son of revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the ...

Two incisive studies of the Chinese president reveal a complex figure who is all too aware of the capricious nature of power ...