Xi’s self-styled image as a leader with absolute authority has roots in his formative years as the son of a revolutionary ...

His father, Xi Zhongxun, was a Party hero of legendary devotion, who remained committed even after a rival Communist faction had threatened to bury him alive. The younger Xi heard so many tales of ...

Xi Jinping’s ascension to a third term as China’s paramount leader at this week’s 20th Party Congress seems almost certain. And yet it has been anything but pre-ordained. Xi has harnessed a ...

His father, Xi Zhongxun, was one of the prominent figures of Chairman Mao's - Mao Zedong's period of rule, back in the 1950s and '60s. And so Xi Jinping himself actually was born as part of what ...

By the time he experienced his own humiliation, his father, Xi Zhongxun, had already been purged as a close adviser to Mao. During the decade-long Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong tried to oust his ...

His father Xi Zhongxun was a revolutionary comrade in arms of Mao’s who was purged during the Cultural Revolution, a frenzied campaign to eliminate counter-revolutionary elements. After his ...

Xi's father, Xi Zhongxun, was a guerrilla fighter in the civil war and later a vice premier. He applauds Xi for boldly addressing what he says are China's most pressing problems — corruption ...

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 ...

That leader was Xi Zhongxun, the late father of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Whether the younger Xi will take the advice given in a speech years ago is unclear. Several days of extraordinary ...

Robert Ray, who was among seven U.S. governors who visited China, where Xi Zhongxun, current President Xi Jinping’s father, was governor of Guangdong province. Xi Zhongxun visited the United ...