Rebell rebel against the elite of their own party. basically turn chinese life upside down. all the powerful people found themselves suddenly attacked and criticized, sometimes by the least powerful people. and xi jinping was right at the center of the storm. at the center of the storm because he was a son of privilege. his father was one of the leading revolutionaries of his generation, one of the people who created the people s reb of china. so his son had the best of everything. he literally grew up in the leadership comepound where leaders worked and the most senior ones lived. he had a very privileged existence in a very socialist society. they used to call themselves born red, which means they had been brought into this world with the expectation that they would eventually lead and would eventually take over the