Xi Mingze (born 1992) is the only child of Xi Jinping, the political leader of China, and Peng Liyuan, a Chinese singer. She is known principally through reporting about her family and her education at Harvard University, where she graduated in 2014. (scmp.com)
Family background
Xi was born in 1992, when her father was serving as Communist Party chief of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province. Her mother was already a prominent soprano. Reporting on her early life has largely appeared within biographical accounts of her parents rather than in interviews with Xi herself. (scmp.com)
Education
Xi attended Hangzhou Foreign Language School and entered Zhejiang University in 2009. (latimes.com)
She enrolled at Harvard in the United States in 2010. Contemporary reporting stated that she studied under an assumed name. (washingtonpost.com)
She graduated from Harvard College in May 2014. According to a 2015 account by journalist Evan Osnos in The New Yorker, she studied psychology and English, and her identity was known to a limited circle of faculty members and friends. (newyorker.com)
Public profile
Reporting about Xi’s university years describes a deliberately low public profile. In March 2015, Harvard Magazine identified her as a 2014 graduate while noting the university’s policy of protecting students’ privacy and security by not confirming or commenting on their enrollment status. (newyorker.com)
References
- What Did China’s First Daughter Find in America?newyorker.com
- Harvard President Faust confers with President Xi Jinping of Chinaharvardmagazine.com
- China sees Obama girls, but not Xi’s daughterlatimes.com
- Chinese communist leaders denounce U.S. values but send children to U.S. collegeswashingtonpost.com