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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-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prime ministers--China--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976--Last years.
- Zhou, Enlai.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction by Andrew J. Nathan ix; 1 The Kiss of Death 1; 2 The Making of a Revolutionary 21; 3 A Young Communist in Europe 39; 4 Building the Infrastructure of Revolution 49; 5 Birds of a Different Feather 63; 6 A Rising Star 75; 7 Trapping the "Chinese Khrushchev" 89; 8 "Preparing to Take the Test" 105; 9 "A Man of Both Sides" 131; 10 A Whirlpool of Absurdity 149; 11 No Exit 165; 12 Heir Pre-emptive 183; 13 Night Flight 201; 14 Whither China's Future? 229; 15 Long Knives 237; 16 From Duet to Duel 249; 17 Sick-Bed Politics 263; 18 The Final Battle 275
- Epilogue: More Power in Death than Life 305Author's Note 311; Translators' Note 316; Acknowledgments 318; List of Sources 319; Index 331
- Notes:
- Adapted and enlarged from author's work Wan nian Zhou Enlai published in 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-13657-0
- 9786613136572
- 0-7867-2598-2
- OCLC:
- 471132904
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