THE NEW YORK TIMES - SEPT. 24, 2015
BEIJING
— When the pandemonium of the Cultural Revolution erupted, he was a
slight, softly spoken 13-year-old who loved classical Chinese poetry.
Two years later, adrift in a city torn apart by warring Red Guards, Xi Jinping had hardened into a combative street survivor.
His
father, a senior Communist Party official who had been purged a few
years earlier, was seized and repeatedly beaten. Student militants
ransacked his family’s home, forcing them to flee, and one of his
sisters died in the mayhem. Paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the
revolution and denounced by his own mother, the future president of China was on the edge of being thrown into a prison for delinquent children of the party elite.
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