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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Behind Xi’s Strongman Image, a Demanding Father Always Loyal to the Party From harsh discipline to memorizing Mao, Xi Zhongxun shaped China’s powerful leader, a new biography recounts By ...
Mao concluded that Xi’s decision to allow a woman cadre to write the book—a fictionalized narrative of a leading revolutionary from the Northwest—was a manifestation of “class struggle.” Xi was ...
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.