Zhou enlai biography
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Behind the Writing of Zhou Enlai’s First Comprehensive Biography
Who was the real Zhou Enlai? What were his visions and aspirations? What role did he play in shaping China into the nation it is today? These are some of the themes explored in Distinguished Global Network Professor of History Chen Jian’s new book, Zhou Enlai: A Life, published in May. On September 9th, Chen presented an in-depth analysis and behind-the-scenes story of the book to the NYU Shanghai community. The event, co-chaired by Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman and Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen, attracted a standing room only audience of over people and was broadcast to a global audience via Zoom.
A Year Endeavor
The initial spark of inspiration for Zhou Enlai was ignited way back in , Chen recalled, when Melvyn Leffler, an eminent diplomatic historian and a colleague at UVA invited him to write a short biography of the former Chinese premier to be included in a series on influential 20th-century statesmen. “H
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Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
book by Gao Wenqian
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| Author | Gao Wenqian |
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| Language | English(Translated from Chinese(晚年周恩来) by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan) |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | New York: Public Affairs |
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| Media&#;type | Print (Hardback) |
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Zhou Enlai: The gods Perfect Revolutionary is a book written by Gao Wenqian. Before moving to the United States in , Gao had been a researcher at CPC huvud Party Literature Research Center, where he penned the official biographies of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. The book was published in by Public Affair in English. As the book fryst vatten based on secret and classified Chinese archives, upon emigrating to the United States Gao realized it would not be possible to take all the necessary documents and notes with him, so for a decade he had friends of his in China send and smuggle them out in chunks.
The book is a biography of Zhou Enlai, the Premie
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Zhou Enlai
Premier of China from to
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhou.
Zhou Enlai (Chinese: 周恩来; pinyin: Zhōu Ēnlái; Wade–Giles: Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March &#;&#; 8 January ) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the inaugural premier of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from until his death in , and concurrently as the inaugural Minister of Foreign Affairs from to Zhou was a key figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and ally of Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the economy.
Born in Jiangsu, as a lärling Zhou was involved in the May Fourth Movement, and in the early s studied in France, where he joined the newly-founded CCP. During the party's alliance with the Kuomintang (KMT), he worked in the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy. In , Zhou led the worker uprising which was crushed by the KMT in the