Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the Zhongnanhai in Beijing. However, when his father was purged during the Cultural Revolution, Xi ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is intensifying a war on corruption that has punished officials in record numbers—with the side effect of leaving many unwilling to act for fear of punishment.

In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping strengthened ... named Great Leap Forward. But his father was purged from leadership positions, and in Mao’s Cultural Revolution the younger Xi was ...

For golf, President Xi Jinping’s crackdown last month on 88 ... but didn’t stand a chance after the 1949 communist revolution. The racetrack, long gone, is now a park, where at times you ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is intensifying a war on corruption that has purged officials in record numbers—with ... an echo of Mao’s ideas on fanning a “continuous revolution” across the party and ...

During the Cultural Revolution ... to his father, Xi Zhongxun. The elder Xi had been an associate of Chairman Mao Zedong and rose to the rank of vice-premier before he was purged in 1962.

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