country. and then it all came apart. >> first xi's father was arrested, supposedly for supporting a play and a book that krcriticized mau. his mother was forced to denounce his father. one of his sisters reportedly committed suicide. >> because she was being hounded so much for the family's political problems, and that's a fact that you won't see in the official party histories. >> xi, still just a child, was forced to fight for his life in the streets of beijing. >> there was nobody at home. there were no parents at home for a very young teenager. >> and that teenager was trying to survive in the chaos of a revolution. >> the culture rev lolution was this implosion of chinese society, right down to the family level. just this kind of inferno of all