Recent estimates suggest Xi Jinping’s net worth is around $1 billion. He ranks among the most powerful figures in modern ...

Of all the changes the Cultural Revolution brought to Chinese society, the most crucial was Mao's purge of numerous Communist ...

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 ...

In the late 1980s, when he served as the Party chief of Ningde, a poor prefecture in Fujian Province, Xi Jinping refused to ...

A Long-Held Tradition Son of revolutionary leader Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping learned from his father's rigorous and disciplined approach to life and work from a young age. Four children of the family ...

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 ...

Li is believed to have won Xi’s favor by, for example, designating where Xi Zhongxun, Jinping’s father, started an uprising around the time of the Chinese Civil War as a site to learn the ...