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Zhou Enlai : a life / Chen Jian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: xi, 817 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674659582
  • 0674659589
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Contents:
Childhood (1898-1910) -- Manchuria to Naikai (1910-1917) -- Japan (1917-1919) -- May Fourth Activist (1919-1920) -- Becoming a Communist in Europe (1920-1924) -- Into Storms of the Great Revolution (1924-1927) -- Shanghai Underground (1927-1931) -- Jiangxi Countryside (1932-1934) -- The Long March (1934-1935) -- "As Chinese, We Must Fight as One Nation" (1935-1937) -- Chongqing Fog (1938-1943) -- Yan'an Sunrise (1941-1945) -- The Vortex of Big Power Politics (1944-1946) -- The Civil War (1946-1949) -- "We, the Chinese, Have Stood Up" (1949-1950) -- The Korean War (1950-1953) -- Transition to Socialism (1952-1955) -- From Geneva to Bandung (1954-1955) -- To Rash or Not to Rash (1956-1958) -- The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) -- Mao Retreats to the "Second Line" (1959-1962) -- The Chairman Returns (1962-1963) -- Revolutions in the Intermediate Zone (1962-1965) -- Gathering Storms in Gusty Winds (1965-1966) -- Opening Salvoes of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1967) -- All Under Heaven Is Great Chaos (1967-1968) -- Lin Biao Dies (1969-1971) -- Nixon and Kissinger Come to China (1969-1972) -- Glory Reaps Tears (1972-1974) -- Last Days (1974-1976)
Summary: "Zhou Enlai, China's first premier, is overshadowed by Chairman Mao, but Zhou's influence in his own time and since has been vast. Chen Jian shows Zhou using his political and bureaucratic skills and centralism to mitigate the damage caused by Mao's radicalism and argues that Zhou created conditions for the post-Mao reforms that have made China a superpower."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 shows, Zhou was never a committed Maoist. His extraordinary political and bureaucratic skill, combined with his centrist approaches, enabled him to mitigate the enormous damage caused by Mao's radicalism.

When Zhou died in 1976, the PRC that we know of was not yet visible on the horizon; he never saw glistening twenty-first-century Shanghai or the broader emergence of Chinese capitalism. But it was Zhou's work that shaped the nation whose influence and power are today felt in every corner of the globe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Childhood (1898-1910) -- Manchuria to Naikai (1910-1917) -- Japan (1917-1919) -- May Fourth Activist (1919-1920) -- Becoming a Communist in Europe (1920-1924) -- Into Storms of the Great Revolution (1924-1927) -- Shanghai Underground (1927-1931) -- Jiangxi Countryside (1932-1934) -- The Long March (1934-1935) -- "As Chinese, We Must Fight as One Nation" (1935-1937) -- Chongqing Fog (1938-1943) -- Yan'an Sunrise (1941-1945) -- The Vortex of Big Power Politics (1944-1946) -- The Civil War (1946-1949) -- "We, the Chinese, Have Stood Up" (1949-1950) -- The Korean War (1950-1953) -- Transition to Socialism (1952-1955) -- From Geneva to Bandung (1954-1955) -- To Rash or Not to Rash (1956-1958) -- The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) -- Mao Retreats to the "Second Line" (1959-1962) -- The Chairman Returns (1962-1963) -- Revolutions in the Intermediate Zone (1962-1965) -- Gathering Storms in Gusty Winds (1965-1966) -- Opening Salvoes of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1967) -- All Under Heaven Is Great Chaos (1967-1968) -- Lin Biao Dies (1969-1971) -- Nixon and Kissinger Come to China (1969-1972) -- Glory Reaps Tears (1972-1974) -- Last Days (1974-1976)

"Zhou Enlai, China's first premier, is overshadowed by Chairman Mao, but Zhou's influence in his own time and since has been vast. Chen Jian shows Zhou using his political and bureaucratic skills and centralism to mitigate the damage caused by Mao's radicalism and argues that Zhou created conditions for the post-Mao reforms that have made China a superpower."-- Provided by publisher.

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