Chou, the Story of Zhou Enlai,
"Zhou Enlai was the most appealing of modern China's leaders. Through three decades of war and upheaval in China before the communist revolution, and for almost thirty years after it, his influence was decisive in shaping the course of events. Yet, despite his public prominence, the real man remained elusive. This is the first fully comprehensive biography of Zhou to appear in the West. Dick Wilson has been collecting information on Zhou ever since his first encounter with the Chinese Premier in Drawing widely on documentary evidence, memoirs, anecdotes and interviews with eyewitnesses to Zhou's career, he traces the intertwining personal and political strands of Zhou's extraordinary life, showing how he came to embrace communism, and how he alone of Mao Zedong's comrades survived in power."--Book jacket.
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Zhou Enlai - A Life
The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss—Chairman Mao.
Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People's Republic of China and ten as its foreign minister. He was the architect of the country's administrative apparatus and its relationship to the world, as well as its legendary spymaster. Richard Nixon proclaimed him "the greatest statesman of our era." Yet Zhou has always been overshadowed by Chairman Mao. Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and aspirations who did much to make China, as well as the larger world, what it is today.
Born to a declining mandarin family in , Zhou received a classical education and as a teenager spent time in Japan. As a young man, driven by the desire for China's
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Long-serving Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (–) played the conscience to Mao Zedong’s capricious lord of misrule, according to this sober biography. Historian Chen (Mao’s China and the Cold War) recaps Zhou’s career, from his role as the Chinese Communist Party’s chief spymaster and diplomat during its civil war with Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist government to his activities as premier and foreign minister following the Communist victory, when he orchestrated such geopolitical breakthroughs as President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing. The book’s fascinating core is Zhou’s relationship with Party Chairman Mao, who began as Zhou’s subordinate before accruing total power—a development Zhou, unlike many purged Party officials, survived through canny maneuvering. Chen styles Zhou as a brilliant organizer and a humane statesman whose “personalized administrative capacity trapped Mao’s seemingly unlimited power” and moderated his excesses. For instance, Zhou issued prescient warnings about Mao’s Great Leap Forward policy, which led to economic collapse and famine, and helped stabilize the country after Mao’s government purges duri
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