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Overview
This new biography of Zhou Enlai is based on research in official documents as well as from longtime acquaintances of Zhou. The authors successfully give an in-depth analysis on the complex personality and controversial actions of Zhou, both as a person and a leader of the Chinese Communist Party. The analysis explors the nature of his political behavior and how such behaviur played a crucial role in modern Chinese history.
The Chinese University Press
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Barbara Barnouin is a research fellow at the Asia Center, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. The late Yu Changgen worked with Zhou Enlai in China's Foreign Ministry in the '60s and '70s. Barnouin and Yu are the coauthors of Ten Years of Turbulence: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy During the Cultural Revolution.
The Chinese University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Years of Struggle
Formative Years (1898-1924) 9
Childhood 9
Modern Education 15
Japan 18
The May Fourth Movement 21
Europe 25
Revolutionary Years (1924-1949) 31
The First "United Front" 31
Defeat 36
Underground Work 44
The Red Base Areas 49
Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong 52
The Long March 56
Encounter with Zhang Guotao 61
The Second "United Front" 63
Mass Mobilization 72
Underground and Intelligence Operations 74
Conversion to Maoism 90
Negotiations on Postwar Settlement 95
Civil War 107
Years in Power
Nation Building (1949-1966) 121
The Imperial Palace 121
The Rise of a Nation 128
First Steps in Foreign Policy 133
The Korean War 139
Upswing in Foreign Policy 151
Development Models, 1953-1956 160
The Road to Cataclysm 184
Downturn in Foreign Relations 199
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) 217
From Poetry to Politics 220
Red Guards and Rebels on the Move 226
Repercussions on the Economy 230
Relations with the New Power Elite 237
Further Escalation 243
Was Zhou the Great Protector? 244
Ramifications on Foreign Relations 258
The Turning of the Tide 263
Lin Biao's Disappearance 272
Ultraleft or Ultraright? 275
Breakthrough in Foreign Policy 281
Illness and Setbacks 296
The Final Year 308
Epilogue 315
Landmarks in the Life of Zhou Enlai 319
Notes 323
Selected Bibliography 355
Index 379