Bloggers analyze Xi Jinping bookshelf

China’s President Xi’s office became a virtual world as the camera swirled from wall to wall and across the desk with its sharpened color pencils and two red phones restricted for Party elites.

Just four minutes in length, President Xi’s New Year’s speech set the tone of grandfatherly ease and compassion for the nation of 1.5 billion people.

Picture 1 shows China’s President Xi Jinping with a group of children at the Beijing Youth Palace in 2013.

Lost in blogger chatter are Marxist classics, Chinese dynastic histories on shelves. It’s the photos that gained all attention.

China’s President Xi Jinping delivers’s New Year’s Day 2015 speech.

Picture 5 is from China President Xi Jinping’s visit to Berlin in 2014.

Picture 4 shows China’s President Xi Jinping with Chinese Navy soldiers in 2012.

Picture 7 shows China’s President Xi Jinping with his father, wife and daughter.

Published on: Jan 4, 2015