By Chris Buckley and Michael Wines Jiang Zemin, the Shanghai Communist kingpin who was handpicked to lead China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and presided over a decade of meteoric ...

Jiang Zemin, the Chinese communist leader who paved the way for the country’s emergence as a global superpower, has died, state-run Xinhua news agency announced Wednesday. He was 96. The former ...

By The Associated Press 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 ...

When he was thrust into the limelight as China’s paramount leader in the immediate aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Jiang Zemin was dismissed by many ... an unfortunate penchant for ...

Jiang's death comes at tumultuous time in China Some Chinese express nostalgia for Jiang era as time of optimism Jiang was plucked from obscurity to head Communist Party Jiang broke China out of ...

Former Chinese leader and general secretary of the country's ruling Communist Party Jiang Zemin died at the age of 96, state news agency Xinhua announced Wednesday. The cause of death was leukemia ...

"Jiang Zemin was more ready to be natural ... Jiang, like Mao, wore his trousers well above his waist and brushed his hair straight back. He loved to sing, and sometimes engaged in impromptu ...