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

JOSEPH TORIGIAN is an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and the author of The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi ...

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 ...

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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.

On Father's Day, CGTN published an article discussing how the teachings and example set by Xi Jinping's father have silently ...

President Xi often recalls the wisdom imparted to him by his father. Xi Zhongxun once told his son: "No matter what your job ...

As leader, Xi Jinping has often discussed his father with foreign leaders, and you can see family pictures on Jinping’s desk during New Years greetings. Yet Xi has not spoken about his father ...

Xi Jinping pushes his father in a wheelchair along a pathway lined on either side with trees and grass. The older man holds hands with a girl of about 8 or 9 years, ...

The more interesting story here isn't what Xi Jinping learned from his father, but what Xi Zhongxun tells us about the nature of the Chinese Communist Party in the 20th century. And the reason for ...

Xi Jinping, left, with his father Xi Zhongxun in 1958. History / Universal Images Group via Getty Images To many observers of China, its top leader, Xi Jinping, is an enigma.