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Who Is Xi? : Article d'Andrew Nathan ((Professor of Political Science at Columbia University more information)) sur le blog ChinaFile recensant quatre ouvrages sur Xi Jinping .More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening crackdown on civil society and promotion of a cult of personality have disappointed many observers, both Chinese and foreign, who saw him as destined by family heritage and life experience to be a liberal reformer. Many thought Xi must have come to understand the dangers of Party dictatorship from the experiences of his family under Mao’s rule. His father, Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002), was almost executed in an inner-Party conflict in 1935, was purged in another struggle in 1962, was “dragged out” and tortured during the Cultural Revolution, and was eased into retirement after another Party confrontation in 1987. During the Cultural Revolution, one of Xi Jinping’s half-sisters was tormented to the point that she committed suicide. Jinping himself, as the offspring of a “capitalist roader,” was “sent down to the countryside” to labor alongside the peasants. The hardships were so daunting that he reportedly tried to escape, but was caught and sent back.Read the full text on ChinaFileReviewed in This Article&#160; Xi Zhongxun zhuan [Biography of Xi Zhongxun]by the Editorial Committee for the Biography of Xi ZhongxunBeijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, two volumes, 1,283 pp. (2013) Xi Jinping: Red China, the Next Generationby Agnès AndrésyUniversity Press of America, 157 pp. Zoubutong de “hongse diguo zhilu” [The “Road of Red Empire” That Cannot Be Traversed]an article by Li WeidongLetscorp.net China’s Futureby David ShambaughPolity, 203 pp.