This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor. Here's John Batchelor. Continuing with Tanya

Bronigan, her new book is Red Memory, The After Lives of China's Cultural Revolution.

Tanya's reporting for the Guardian over many years, over eight years,

between the time of Huxentau and his premiership,

his general secretorship in the first decade of the 21st century,

and Xi Jinping of the second decade and now the third decade.

Both Xi Jinping and the second decade and now the third decade. Both Xi Jinping and one rival that grew up at the same time as Xi Jinping,

Boschili, are victims of the Red Guard and were part of the Red Guard at the same time.

Born between, I'm going to guess, 1946, the end of the Second War

and the Japanese occupation, and 1956, the speech, the secret speech in Moscow by Khrushchev.

That generation, right in there, my generation, all victims of, all persecuted by, all part of the Red Guard,

have opinions of them. And these two men are known as princelings. Tanya, again, your book is wonderful.

What is a princeling in China? What does that mean when people talk about them?

These are the children who were born to the very top communist leaders, particularly in the case

of Borchili and Xi Jinping, that they were born to figures who'd been involved in the

revolution, had come to power as senior leaders, but as you say, who both fell foul

of Mao very spectacularly, as so many people at the top of the party did. And so in both cases,

their families suffered immensely in the cultural revolution. Borosha Lies, siblings, we believe. His

brothers were initially quite active red guards, we think,

but then his father was toppled. His mother, we believe, died after she was beaten by red guards.

In Xi Jinping's case, his father had a daughter by a previous marriage, So she's elder sister is thought to have committed

suicide because of the suffering that the family endured. His father was persecuted. A family friend

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