Zhou Enlai: A Political Life

by Barbara Barnouin, Changgen Yu

Overview

Zhou Enlai is one of the most controversial political figures in the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on official documents and the testimony of people who knew Zhou, Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen provide an in-depth analysis of Zhou's complex personality, both as a person and a leader of the CCP, and his controversial actions. Their biography thoroughly and sensitively explains his political behavior, especially how such behavior shaped modern Chinese history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789629962807
Publisher:	The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Publication date:	07/24/2007
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Barbara Barnouin is a research fellow at the Asia Center (CRAM) in the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

The late Yu Changgen had worked with Zhou Enlai in the Foreign Ministry of China during the 1960s and 70s. Together, they co-authored Ten Years of Turbulence: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy Durgaing the Cultural Revolution.

Table of Contents

Introduction     1
Years of Struggle
Formative Years (1898-1924)     9
Childhood     9
Modern Education     15
Japan     18
The May Fourth Movement     21
Europe     25
Revolutionary Years (1924-1949)     31
The First "United Front"     31
Defeat     36
Underground Work     44
The Red Base Areas     49
Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong     52
The Long March     56
Encounter with Zhang Guotao     61
The Second "United Front"     63
Mass Mobilization     72
Underground and Intelligence Operations     74
Conversion to Maoism     90
Negotiations on Postwar Settlement     95
Civil War     107
Years in Power
Nation Building (1949-1966)     121
The Imperial Palace     121
The Rise of a Nation     128
First Steps in Foreign Policy     133
The Korean War     139
Upswing in Foreign Policy     151
Development Models, 1953-1956     160
The Road to Cataclysm     184
Downturn in Foreign Relations     199
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)     217
From Poetry to Politics     220
Red Guards and Rebels on the Move     226
Repercussions on the Economy     230
Relations with the New Power Elite     237
Further Escalation     243
Was Zhou the Great Protector?     244
Ramifications on Foreign Relations     258
The Turning of the Tide     263
Lin Biao's Disappearance     272
Ultraleft or Ultraright?     275
Breakthrough in Foreign Policy     281
Illness and Setbacks     296
The Final Year     308
Epilogue     315
Landmarks in the Life of Zhou Enlai     319
Notes     323
Selected Bibliography     355
Index     379

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