Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen, Jian
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen, Jian

Zhou Enlai: A Life

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier...
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Author: Jian Chen
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Language: English
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Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen, Jian

Zhou Enlai: A Life

$61.61
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen, Jian

Zhou Enlai: A Life

$61.61
Author: Jian Chen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss--Chairman Mao.

Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People's Republic of China and ten as its foreign minister. He was the architect of the country's administrative apparatus and its relationship to the world, as well as its legendary spymaster. Richard Nixon proclaimed him "the greatest statesman of our era." Yet Zhou has always been overshadowed by Chairman Mao. Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and aspirations who did much to make China, as well as the larger world, what it is today.

Born to a declining mandarin family in 1898, Zhou received a classical education and as a teenager spent time in Japan. As a young man, driven by the desire for China's development, Zhou embraced the communist revolution as a vehicle of China's salvation. He helped Mao govern through a series of transformations, including the disastrous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Yet, as Chen shows, Zhou was never a committed Maoist. His extraordinary political and bureaucratic skill, combined with his centrist approaches, enabled him to mitigate the enormous damage caused by Mao's radicalism.

When Zhou died in 1976, the PRC that we know of was not yet visible on the horizon; he never saw glistening twenty-first-century Shanghai or the broader emergence of Chinese capitalism. But it was Zhou's work that shaped the nation whose influence and power are today felt in every corner of the globe.

Author: Jian Chen
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 840
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.54w x 1.97d
ISBN: 9780674659582


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024
Choice 11/01/2024

About the Author
Chen, Jian: - A leading scholar of the Cold War and the history of modern China, Chen Jian is Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at New York University and NYU Shanghai; Hu Shih Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University; and Zijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China Normal University.
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