{"id":49534,"date":"2022-10-22T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/xi-jinping-from-counter-revolutionary-to-absolute-power"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:00:58","slug":"xi-jinping-from-counter-revolutionary-to-absolute-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49534","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping: from \u2018counter-revolutionary\u2019 to absolute power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born into the Communist party elite and shaped by the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese president stands on the brink of securing historic power<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/14\/chinas-communist-party-congress-everything-you-need-to-know\">China\u2019s Communist party congress: all you need to know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Xi Jinping was 13 years old, at the height of China\u2019s Cultural Revolution, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary before a frenzied crowd in Beijing. Among his accusers was his own mother, forced to join in the taunting.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s future leader was targeted mostly because his father, a top Communist cadre, was purged by Chairman Mao Zedong. His fall dragged the family down too; Xi\u2019s half-sister died, reportedly after intense abuse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/xi-jinping-from-counter-revolutionary-to-absolute-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born into the Communist party elite and shaped by the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese president stands on the brink of securing historic powerChina\u2019s Communist party congress: all you need to knowWhen Xi Jinping was 13 years old, at the height of Chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49535,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions\/49535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}