Zhou Enlai The Last Perfect Revolutionary

Name: Zhou Enlai The Last Perfect Revolutionary
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ISBN: 9781586486457

ISBN-10: 1586486454

ISBN-13: 9781586486457

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gao Wenqian

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.54" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.946



Introduction




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


Author's Note


Translators' Note


Acknowledgments


List of Sources


Index