JIANG ZEMIN

Commemorations of the dearly departed are a licensed form of popular feeling that can make them dangerous moments for the Communist authorities.

China's leaders have eulogized the late Jiang Zemin as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country's rapid economic rise while maintaining rigid Communist Party control over society.

Top officials gathered for former president Jiang Zemin's memorial as Xi Jinping faces widespread frustration over covid restrictions and his iron-fisted rule.

As China holds a memorial service for its late leader Jiang Zemin, an NPR correspondent who met Jiang reflects on the figure and his transforming country.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other current and previous top officials paid their respects Monday to former leader Jiang Zemin, who died last week at age 96. State broadcaster CCTV showed Xi, his predecessor Hu Jintao and others bowing to Jiang’s body at a military hospital in Beijing. Jiang's body was then sent for cremation at Babaoshan cemetery, where many top leaders are interred.

Citizens who suddenly recognize the nature of their authoritarian government don’t easily forget about it.

Street protests that broke out in several Chinese cities over the weekend may have come as a surprise, but the ruling Communist Party has been preparing for this moment for years, decades even.

More Chinese cities are easing some anti-virus restrictions as police patrol their streets to head off protests.

With his death, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin leaves behind a very different China than the one he tried to shape.

Jiang Zemin rose to power in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests and leaves a legacy of economic reforms — but also tight political control.

Jiang led his country out of isolation after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, backing economic reform that ushered a decade of explosive growth.

Jiang Zemin led China out of isolation after the Tiananmen Square massacre and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth.

Jiang, who came to power in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, led the country as it harnessed capitalism to become a global economic player.

He presided over a period of extraordinary economic growth that by some measures tripled the size of China’s economy.

State media report former Chinese President Jiang Zemin has died at age 96.

Former President Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, died Wednesday. Jiang died of leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai, where he was a former mayor and Communist Party secretary, state TV and the official Xinhua News Agency reported. A surprise choice to lead a divided Communist Party after the 1989 turmoil, Jiang saw China through history-making changes including a revival of market-oriented reforms, the return of Hong Kong from British rule in 1997 and Beijing’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Xi Jinping is primed to receive a third five-year term as head of China's ruling Communist Party on Sunday.

On the eve of the opening of a key Chinese Communist Party congress, party leader, head of state and commander of the armed forces Xi Jinping has given no indication of stepping away from power or anointing a successor.

In 1997, Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan.

Hong Kong has marked the 25th anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule.

60 Minutes Archives: An interview with China's Jiang Zemin Bob Anderson produced this rare interview with then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Mike Wallace asked about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Falun Gong, and the relationship between China and the U.S.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) attends a military parade with former presidents Hu Jintao (L) and Jiang Zemin in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. BEIJING At the highest level, Chinese leaders don't appear eager to make major economic reforms right now to what has long been criticized as a state-dominated economy. Instead, the ruling party is urging officials to "learn" and "modernize." "Some officials lack (the) ability to adapt and learn," Jiang said, according to an official translation of his Mandarin-language remarks. "We ask them to learn, learn, learn.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin (L) chats with Chairman of the National People's Congress Li Peng during the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee in Beijing in 2002. BEIJING - Li Peng, the former Chinese Premier remembered for his role in the brutal military suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters, has died aged 91, according to state-run media. After Li suffered a heart attack in 1993, Zhu gradually assumed more responsibility for the country's economic policies and eventually succeeded Li as Premier in 1998. He was widely said to have been adopted by Zhou Enlai, Communist China's highly respected first Premier who occupied the post from 1949 until his death in 1976. Li was last seen in public in October 2017 during the 19th Communist Party Congress as current President Xi Jinping further consolidated power while former leaders' influence waned.