Zhou Enlai The Last Perfect Revolutionary

by Wenqian, Gao

• ISBN13: 9781586486457
• ISBN10: 1586486454
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-22
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

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 the China, he offers an objective human portrait of the real Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. Often touted as "the last perfect revolutionary," Zhou is "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution, and an icon who allows modern Chinese to find an admirable figure in what was a traumatic and bloody era. But his greatest gift was to survive, at almost any price, thanks to his acute understanding of where political power resided at any one time.

Author Biography

Gao Wenqian is the former official biographer of Zhou Enlai at the Chinese Communist Party Central Research Office for Documentation and director of the Zhou Enlai Research Group. He lives in Queens, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Kiss of Death	p. 1
The Making of a Revolutionary	p. 21
A Young Communist in Europe	p. 39
Building the Infrastructure of Revolution	p. 49
Birds of a Different Feather	p. 63
A Rising Star	p. 75
Trapping the "Chinese Khrushchev"	p. 89
"Preparing to Take the Test"	p. 105
"A Man of Both Sides"	p. 131
A Whirlpool of Absurdity	p. 149
No Exit	p. 165
Heir Pre-emptive	p. 183
Night Flight	p. 201
Whither China's Future?	p. 229
Long Knives	p. 237
From Duet to Duel	p. 249
Sick-Bed Politics	p. 263
The Final Battle	p. 275
Epilogue: More Power in Death than Life	p. 305
Author's Note	p. 311
Translators' Note	p. 316
Acknowledgments	p. 318
List of Sources	p. 319
Index	p. 331
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