Zhou enlai brief biography example
•
Home » Peacebuilder » Portraits of Global Citizens
Zhou Enlai
A Great Leader of the People
Meeting with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (Beijing, December 1974)
(Translated from an essay in The Complete Works of Daisaku Ikeda1)
I was in Kansai when I received the news of Zhou Enlai’s death. That inevitable moment had finally come, I thought. I offered a silent prayer for him: “How tired you must have been, Premier. Please, rest quietly now.”
On that day, January 9, 1976, I was on my way from Osaka to a meeting in Kyoto. At that meeting, one thousand members and I prayed with all our hearts for the eternal happiness of Zhou Enlai. (Zhou Enlai died on January 8, and his death was announced the following day.)
In his youth, Zhou Enlai had studied in Kyoto. Before leaving Japan, the twenty-one-year-old Zhou visited Kyoto’s Arashiyama and Maruyama parks. It was the spring of 1919. Arashiyama Hill was blanketed in a cloud of rain. The banks of the river flowing
•
Behind the Writing of Zhou Enlai’s First Comprehensive Biography
Who was the real Zhou Enlai? What were his visions and aspirations? What role did he play in shaping China into the nation it is today? These are some of the themes explored in Distinguished Global Network Professor of History Chen Jian’s new book, Zhou Enlai: A Life, published in May. On September 9th, Chen presented an in-depth analysis and behind-the-scenes story of the book to the NYU Shanghai community. The event, co-chaired bygd Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman and rektor Joanna Waley-Cohen, attracted a standing room only audience of over 120 people and was broadcast to a global audience via Zoom.
A 20-Year Endeavor
The första spark of inspiration for Zhou Enlai was ignited way back in 2004, Chen recalled, when Melvyn Leffler, an eminent diplomatic historian and a colleague at UVA invited him to write a short biography of the former Chinese premier to be included in a series on influential 20th-century st
•
Zhou Enlai
Premier of China from 1949 to 1976
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhou.
Zhou Enlai (Chinese: 周恩来; pinyin: Zhōu Ēnlái; Wade–Giles: Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the inaugural premier of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 until his death in 1976, and concurrently as the inaugural Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1958. Zhou was a key figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and ally of Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the economy.
Born in Jiangsu, as a student Zhou was involved in the 1919 May Fourth Movement, and in the early 1920s studied in France, where he joined the newly-founded CCP. During the party's alliance with the Kuomintang (KMT), he worked in the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy. In 1927, Zhou led