Given that Xi Jinping's father was a reformer, should his son not have been one as well? In the first English-language ...

During Mao’s 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, which began as Xi Jinping entered his teens, militant Red Guards abused Xi Zhongxun at public-shaming rallies and, according to party accounts which ...

President Xi Jinping will probably leave Beijing next week and join senior officials at the beach resort of Beidaihe, about ...

Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao. Xi Jinping, left, with his father, Xi ...

It examines why Xi Jinping's rule echoes Mao's autocracy, despite his father's reformist ideals. The book reveals the inherent contradictions within the Chinese Communist Party.

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao Zedong. He fell from grace but later returned to power.