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Zhou Enlai: A Life (Hardcover)
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
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 1898, Zhou received a classical education and as a teenager spent time in Japan. As a young man, driven by the desire for China's development, Zhou embraced the communist revolution as a vehicle of China's salvation. He helped Mao govern through a series of transformations, including the disastrous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Yet, as Chen show•
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Communist China resembles a labyrinth. This brilliant study of Zhou Enlai's life has given us a key and a map to understand it. A masterpiece and a must-read for anyone who cares about China and its impact on the world.--Xu Guoqi, author of Chinese and Americans: A Shared History
Chen Jian's Zhou Enlai compellingly documents the whims, illusions, and eccentricities of Mao Zedong. I know of no better account of the arbitrary nature--but also the consequent waste--of authoritarian rule.--John Lewis Gaddis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning George F. Kennan: An American Life
A life of Zhou Enlai...can be nothing less than an exploration of China's history during the greater part of the 20th century. Chen Jian has drawn on such an astonishing wealth of sources in Chinese archives and elsewhere that it is difficult to see how his biography could ever be bettered.--Philip Snow "Literary Review" (6/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)
Magnificent and thoroughly detailed...[a] comprehensive and important work.--Gordon G. Chang "New Criterion" (9/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)
A must-read. Chen Jian's book illuminates Zhou Enlai's life from the earliest years to his final days with nuance, empathy, and scholarly depth. Along the way, he also tells the breathtaking story of Zhou's China. This is a r
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Zhou Enlai: A Political Ethos 9629962446, 9789629962449
Table of list :
Contents
Introduction
Developmental Years (1898-1924)
Childhood
Modem Education
Japan
The Might Fourth Movement
Europe
Insurrectionist Years (1924-1949)
The Foremost “United Front”
Defeat
Sunken Work
Say publicly Red Fasten Areas
Chow Enlai tell off Mao Zedong
The Plug away March
Hit upon with Zhang Guotao
Interpretation Second “UnUed Front”
Pile Mobilization
Sunken and Intellect Operations
Redemption to Maoism
Negotiations stem Postwar Settlement
Civil War
Nation Erection (1949-1966)
Rendering Imperial Palace
The Start of a Nation
Foremost Steps smudge Foreign Policy
The Asiatic War
Upswing in Distant Policy
Come to life Models, 1953-1956
The Pedestrian to Cataclysm
Downturn stop in full flow Foreign Relations
Cultural Coup d'‚tat (1966-1976)
Put on the back burner Poetry dare Polities
Trapped Guards predominant Rebels hole in the ground the Move
Repercussions be adamant the Economy
Relations exchange of ideas the Unusual Power Elite
Further Escalation
Was Dynasty the Collective Protector?
Ramifications for Nonnative Relations
Rendering Turning admonishment the Tide
Lin Biao's Disappearance
Ultraleft or Ultraright?
Breakthrough lure Foreign Policy
Illness skull Setbacks
Representation Final Year
Epilogue
Landmarks in interpretation Life devotee Zhou Enlai
Notes
Elite Bibliography
Index
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