Xi Jinping's home life and formative influences are revealed in this excerpt from Joseph Torigian's biography on Xi Zhongxun, ...

In China, the world is witnessing the possible return of a far more technocratic elite that favors scaling back direct confrontation with the West.

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, ...

The Americans at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations who staffed the trip remembered Xi as a friendly and ...

Xi’s hard-line approach belies a deeper degree of continuity with his father, whose “absolute devotion” to the Communist Party may have inspired his son’s own commitment to it and its long ...

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 ...

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.

FRONTLINE examines the rise of Xi Jinping, ... Professor Alfred Chan is author of an exhaustive biography of Xi Jinping that chronicles his life. ... Mr. Lu told me Xi had books with him, ...

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.

Many within the party elite misread Xi Jinping when he took power in 2012, expressing expectations that he would emulate his father’s reputation as a reformer who helped open up China’s ...