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Zhou Enlai : the last perfect revolutionary : a biography / Gao Wenqian ; translated by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan.
Van Pelt Library DS778.C593 G366 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gao, Wenqian, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976--Last years.
- Zhou, Enlai.
- Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976.
- Prime ministers--China--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Last years of a person's life.
- China.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- History.
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2007]
- Summary:
- This first authoritative biography of the Premier of the Peoples Republic of China from 1949 to 1976, this volume offers an objective human portrait of one of the most important, most mythologized leaders in the history of communist China, based long-secret, classified documents. Photos.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Andrew J. Nathan
- The kiss of death
- The making of a revolutionary
- A young communist in Europe
- Building the infrastructure of revolution
- Birds of a different feather
- A rising star
- Trapping the "Chinese Khrushchev"
- "Preparing to take the test"
- "A man of both sides"
- A whirlpool of absurdity
- No exit
- Heir pre-emptive
- Night flight
- Whither China's future?
- Long knives
- From duet to duel
- Sick-bed politics
- The final battle
- Epilogue : more power in death than life.
- Notes:
- Adapted and enlarged from author's work Wan nian Zhou Enlai published in 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781586484156
- 158648415X
- OCLC:
- 163617366
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