Zhou Enlai: A Life
Mao's premier survived every purge, and the question is what that survival actually cost.
Chen Jian’s biography follows Zhou Enlai from the revolutionary years through the founding of the People’s Republic, the Cultural Revolution and the opening to America. The central problem is Zhou’s accommodation with Mao: whether he restrained the worst of it from inside or enabled it, and Chen has the archival material to press the question.
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Tyler Cowen
Then there is Jian Chen’s Zhou Enlai: A Life, which seems like a major achievement. I’ve only had time to read small amounts of it…is it “too soon to tell”? I say no!
Source · January 2024
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