Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect RevolutionaryZhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of criticism is removed -- so when Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using classified documents spirited out of China, Gao Wenqian offers an objective human portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution not thanks to ideological or personal purity, but because he was artful, crafty, and politically supple. He may have had the looks of a matinee idol, and Nixon may have called him "the greatest statesman of our era," but Zhou's greatest gift was to survive, at almost any price, thanks to his acute understanding of where political power resided at any one time. |
Contents
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2 The Making of a Revolutionary 21 | 21 |
3 A Young Communist in Europe 39 | 39 |
4 Building the Infrastructure of Revolution 49 | 49 |
5 Birds of a Different Feather 63 | 63 |
6 A Rising Star 75 | 75 |
7 Trapping the Chinese Khrushchev 89 | 89 |
8 Preparing to Take the Test 105 | 105 |
14 Whither Chinas Future? 229 | 229 |
15 Long Knives 237 | 237 |
16 From Duet to Duel 249 | 249 |
17 SickBed Politics 263 | 263 |
18 The Final Battle 275 | 275 |
More Power in Death than Life 305 | 305 |
Authors Note 311 | 311 |
Translators Note 316 | 316 |
9 A Man of Both Sides 131 | 131 |
10 A Whirlpool of Absurdity 149 | 149 |
11 No Exit 165 | 165 |
12 Heir Preemptive 183 | 183 |
13 Night Flight 201 | 201 |
Acknowledgments 318 | 318 |
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