Zhou Enlai : the last perfect revolutionary : a biography / Gao Wenqian ; translated by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gao, Wenqian, 1953-

Contributor:

Gao, Wenqian, 1953-

Rand, Peter, 1942-

Sullivan, Lawrence R.

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.

Related Work:

Gao, Wenqian, 1953- Wan nian Zhou Enlai.

ISBN:

9781586484156

158648415X

OCLC:

163617366