Xi Mingze

Xi Mingze
习明泽
Born (1992-06-27) 27 June 1992
Beijing
Nationality Chinese
Alma mater Hangzhou Foreign Language School
Zhejiang University
Harvard University
Relatives Xi Jinping (father)
Peng Liyuan (mother)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xi.

Xi Mingze (simplified Chinese: 习明泽; traditional Chinese: 習明澤; pinyin: Xí Míngzé; born 27 June 1992; nicknamed Xiao Muzi (小木子),[1] is the only child of Chinese Leader Xi Jinping,[2] and folk singer Peng Liyuan.[3]

Life and career

She worked in disaster relief for the May floods[4] and is described as interested in reading and fashion.[1][5] In 2008, Xi went to Hanwang, Sichuan, which was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, to serve as a volunteer for seven days.[1][5][6]

Education

From 2006 to 2008, she studied French at her high school, Hangzhou Foreign Language School.[1] Xi enrolled at Harvard University, as a freshman in 2010 after a year of undergraduate study at Zhejiang University,[7] in May or the autumn of 2010 under a pseudonym.[8][9] At Harvard, Xi maintained a low profile.[10] She graduated in 2014 and has since returned to China.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Staff Reporter (16 February 2012). "Red Nobility: Xi Jinping's Harvard daughter". Want China Times. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  2. Epatko, Larisa (8 November 2012). "China to Choose New Slate of Leaders: How Will It Affect the U.S.?". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. Ewing, Kent (17 November 2007). "Beauty and the bores". Asia Times Online. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  4. http://www.womenofchina.cn/html/report/93649-1.html
  5. 1 2 CHOU, JENNIFER (14 July 2008). "China's Star Princelings". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  6. Page, Jeremy (13 February 2012). "Meet China's Folk Star First Lady-in-Waiting". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  7. FlorCruz, Jaime A. (2 February 2012). "Who is Xi: China's next leader". CNN. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  8. Liu, Melinda (18 January 2011). "Can't we just be friends?". Newsweek. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  9. Andrew Jacobs and Dan Levin, Son’s Parties and Privilege Aggravate Fall of Elite Chinese Family, New York Times, 16 April 2012.
  10. WONG, EDWARD (26 April 2012). "In China, a Fall From Grace May Aid a Rise to Power". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  11. OSNOS, EVAN (6 April 2015). "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China's most authoritarian leader since Mao". The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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