The first biography in English of China’s president’s father highlights how even reformers bow to state ideology ...

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

China’s Xi Jinping appears to have played his hand well in the face of hostility and threats from Donald Trump. But at home, ...

Xi Zhongxun, a major Chinese Communist Party heavyweight and the father of the current Chinese leader Xi Jinping, visited one ...

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Joseph Torigian joins us to discuss his newly released book The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping. Dr. Torigian ...

When Xi Jinping joined the CCP during the Cultural Revolution, the party was still persecuting his father. Because of Zhongxun’s status, Jinping had to submit an application to join many times ...

Xi Jinping was 9 when his father was purged. In the early years of the Cultural Revolution, he, too, was persecuted and humiliated at struggle rallies, and he was incarcerated twice.

Xi Jinping was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for a third time, to launder the family’s clothes.) He also understood ...

Xi Jinping—by then in his mid-30s and a rising star in the Chinese Communist Party—accepted the morsel without hesitation or complaint. He took the remains of the ribs and swallowed them.

In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself.

Xi Zhongxun's own children learned different lessons about the meaning of their father's life. One of them very sadly killed herself during the Cultural Revolution. One of them apparently had ...