Article: Zhou Enlai: The Early Years.(Brief Article)

By Chae-Jin Lee. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 241. $35.00.)

Zhou Enlai, the Premier of the People's Republic of China for 27 years, is generally loved in China and esteemed in the West. Charming, sophisticated, intelligent, and urbane, he put a cosmopolitan face on Chinese communism. But he is also regarded by Western scholars as the most illusive, mysterious, and enigmatic of China's revolutionary leaders because throughout his career he assumed so many personae and political postures. Chae-Jin Lee has made a careful and prodigious research of a wide array of fresh Chinese sources, which were not available to Zhou's early biographers. He ...

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