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Xi Jinping, a Young Princeling
Xi Jinping started out as a private secretary to a military boss, Gong Bao. His father had been purged from the party leadership in 1962 but was back in favor. Xi has described how he would take notes secretly, run to the bathroom to commit them to memory, then burn the paper.