They’re set to govern for the next 10 years. The son of revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the ...

But while his princeling status — being the son of revolutionary Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun — may have helped get him to power, Xi has maintained his leadership role only by closely ...

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 ...

Unlike the fathers of other princelings, Xi Jinping’s illustrious father Xi Zhongxun is held in high esteem in China for his contributions during the revolution years and subsequently in ...

Born in Beijing in 1953, Xi enjoyed a privileged youth as the second son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier and guerrilla commander in the civil war that brought Mao Zedong’s communist rebels ...

because his father Xi Zhongxun had fought side by side with Mao Zedong. As a «princeling,» Xi exudes a deep self-confidence, a composure, even a certain cold-bloodedness, say many people who ...

Li is believed to have won Xi’s favor by, for example, designating where Xi Zhongxun, Jinping’s father, started an uprising around the time of the Chinese Civil War as a site to learn the ...

They’re set to govern for the next 10 years. The son of revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the ...