This new biography of Zhou Enlai is based on research in official documents as well as from longtime acquaintances of Zhou. The authors successfully give an in-depth analysis on the complex personality and controversial actions of Zhou, both as a person and a leader of the Chinese Communist Party. The analysis explors the nature of his political behavior and how such behaviur played a crucial role in modern Chinese history.
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Barbara Barnouin is a research fellow at the Asia Center, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. The late Yu Changgen worked with Zhou Enlai in China's Foreign Ministry in the '60s and '70s. Barnouin and Yu are the coauthors of Ten Years of Turbulence: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy During the Cultural Revolution.
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Interesting but lacking in some respects,
By Steve Purcell (Seattle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zhou Enlai: A Political Life (Paperback)
I wanted to read a biography of Zhou Enlai and this one is good enough to satisfy that need.
However the authors spend a lot of time on the later part of his life which are arguably more interesting but it is at a cost of understanding earlier years. At first the book seems a bit dry and more like a chronology of events, then when the later chapters come it gets more compelling. I'm not sure if that is due to my own interest and knowledge or if the book got better. I think it's a bit of both. It's a short book so it doesn't take long to read and it provides and interesting addition to learning about Mao and other things about the communist years in China. However the lack of photographs and the lack of detail make it less than it could be otherwise. For such an important figure in modern history it seems inadequate. On the technical side: some things that do not seem important but do become noticable are the mistakes in English. It's fairly common throughout the book.
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Zhou Enlai was born on 5 March 1898, during a period of dramatic change in China's historya change characterized by the decline of the Qing dynasty (1616-1911) and an unprecedented encroachment of foreign powers on Chinese soil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cultural Revolution, Zhou Enlai, United States, Lin Biao, Central Committee, Soviet Union, Chiang Kai-shek, Jiang Qing, Foreign Ministry, Red Army, Chen Yi, Red Guards, Hong Kong, Liu Shaoqi, State Council, Chairman Mao, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, People's Republic, Standing Committee, Mao Zedong Thought, Wang Ming, Central Military Commission, Eighth Route Army, Kang Sheng New!
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Zhou Enlai was born on 5 March 1898, during a period of dramatic change in China's historya change characterized by the decline of the Qing dynasty (1616-1911) and an unprecedented encroachment of foreign powers on Chinese soil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cultural Revolution, Zhou Enlai, United States, Lin Biao, Central Committee, Soviet Union, Chiang Kai-shek, Jiang Qing, Foreign Ministry, Red Army, Chen Yi, Red Guards, Hong Kong, Liu Shaoqi, State Council, Chairman Mao, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, People's Republic, Standing Committee, Mao Zedong Thought, Wang Ming, Central Military Commission, Eighth Route Army, Kang Sheng New!
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- The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3: Sui and T'ang China, 589-906 AD, Part 1 by Denis C. Twitchett on 5 pages
- Selected Works by Joseph V. Stalin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Zhou Enlai: 2 by Dick Wilson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3 by Roderick MacFarquhar in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Mao Zedong by Jung Chang in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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