false 2116379 1 The first authoritative biography of one of the most important, most mythologized leaders in the history of communist China, based on long-secret documents. <P> Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of criticism is removed--so when Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. <P> Using classified documents spirited out of China, Gao Wenqian offers an objective human 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 not thanks to ideological or personal purity, but because he was artful, crafty, and politically supple. He may have had the looks of a matinee idol, and Nixon may have called him "the greatest statesman of our era," but Zhou's greatest gift was to survive, at almost any price, thanks to his acute understanding of where political power resided at any one time. 2121807 29 10 2007 Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary total:25|5:1|4:15|3:4|2:4|1:1| 25 86 46 10 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:18:01 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:26:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 00:05:45 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 21:26:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 29 19:43:05 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 05 21:00:44 -0700 2009 1
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Wasn't he Mao Zedong's old crony from the Long March of 1934-5 when Mao and the Red Army escaped from the Chiang Kai-Shek forces, the escape that kept the Red Army intact to fight another day -- that day in 1949 when they tossed out the Chiang force...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 03 11:42:13 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 12 15:53:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 13:53:04 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 13:36:15 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 08:54:59 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 08:55:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 17:15:57 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 17:15:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:19:25 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 00:19:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 03:12:10 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 03:12:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 12 07:04:39 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 07:04:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 16:19:53 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 16:19:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 14:40:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 14:40:13 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 04 11:54:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 11:54:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 29 13:50:01 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 13:50:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon May 04 15:19:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 15:19:23 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2116379