Zhou Enlai: A Political Life

by Barbara Barnouin, Changgen Yu

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789629962449
Publisher:	The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Publication date:	07/11/2006
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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 Durgaing the Cultural Revolution.

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

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