In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi ...

Xi’s self-styled image as a leader with absolute authority has roots in his formative years as the son of a revolutionary ...

SMITH: Professor Alfred Chan is author of an exhaustive biography of Xi Jinping that chronicles his life. >> His father was drag out and parade in the street. In those day, they put a dunce cap on ...

Xi is a strongman who nevertheless suffered deep childhood trauma ... mother was so terrified for her own safety — and that of Jinping’s siblings — that she not only turned him away but ...

including Xi Jinping, fixates and obsesses over”, says Joseph Torigian, an expert in Chinese and Russian elite politics and author of an upcoming biography of Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun.

subject of his new biography The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford University Press, 2025). A sweeping narrative of the Chinese revolution that ...

How could Jinping betray the party for which his father sacrificed so much?" historian Joseph Torigian writes in the first English-language biography of Xi Zhongxun, which offers fresh vignettes ...