Zhou Enlai: A Life Chen Jian. Belknap, $39.95 (800p) ISBN 978-0-674-65958-2. Long-serving Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) played the conscience to Mao Zedong’s capricious lord of ...

After traveling to Japan, where he made a failed two-year effort to study, Zhou returned to China in 1919 and participated in the May Fourth Movement protesting the Versailles Conference decision to ...

Writing history is a dicey enterprise for Chinese scholars, and never more so than when the subject is a Communist Party figure like Zhou Enlai — China’s Premier from the founding of the ...

Nixon was taken to the Diaoyutai state guest house. The official schedule called for a rest, followed by a formal meeting and then a banquet with Zhou Enlai. LORD, KISSINGER AIDE “An hour after we got ...

Zhou Enlai’s Caution Lost in Translation. Jun 10, 2011. Richard McGregor explains the misunderstanding behind Zhou Enlai’s famous utterance — “too soon to tell” — on the impact of the ...

A new biography cuts through Communist Party propaganda to shed light on Zhou’s tumultuous life and the dehumanizing nature of politics under a totalitarian regime. CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Among the ...

First lady Pat Nixon was sitting beside Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai at a banquet in Beijing. It was the first night of the historic visit she and her husband, President Richard M. Nixon, ...

Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing arrived in Washington in 1972 as two cuddly, black-and-white olive branches from Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, following President Richard M. Nixon’s landmark visit to ...

When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed ...