Zhou Enlai by Gao Wenqian - ISBN: 9781586486457
Paperback
Works about Zhou Enlai are heavily censored in China. This work offers a portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution - no thanks to ideological or personal purity - but because he w…

Zhou Enlai

The Last Perfect Revolutionary

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    22 July 2008

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Summary

When Gao Wenqian first published this ground-breaking, 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 w…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781586486457
ISBN-10:1586486454
Author:Gao Wenqian
Publisher:PublicAffairs,U.S.
Imprint:PublicAffairs,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:22 July 2008
Weight:432g
Dimensions:211mm x 142mm x 21mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“a valuable and revealing book on the brutish and incredibly cruel nature of the Maoist regime… For a sense of what life as a top Communist leader under Mao was like look no further.” BBC History Magazine “(Gao Wenqian) offers valuable insights into the “brutal mafia-like battle that is Chinese politics”. Daily Telegraph”

About The Author

Gao Wenqian

Gao Wenqian is the former official biographer of Zhou Enlai at the Chinese Communist Party Central Research Office for Documentation and director of the Zhou Enlai Research Group. He lives in Queens, New York.

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