Chen Jian.
CHEN JIAN
ZHOU ENLAI: A LIFE (2024)
Zhou Enlai spent ten years as China’s foreign minister, and twenty seven years as premier. His great bureaucratic skills enabled him to moderate the extreme policies of Mao. These included the devastating impact of the Cultural Revolution. Although designaged as the successor to Mao, he was edged out by the Gang of Four. Throughout his career he advocated friendly relations with the West.
The Literary Reivew wrote of the book: ‘A life of Zhou Enlai … can be nothing less than an exploration of China’s history during the greater part of the 20th century. Chen Jian has drawn on such an astonishing wealth of sources in Chinese archives and elsewhere that it is difficult to see how his biography could ever be bettered.’
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Chen Jian is the Professor of History and China-US Relations emeritus at Cornell University. He is also a visiting Professor of History at New York University Shanghai. He obtained his MA at Fudan Unviersity and East China Normal University in 1982, and in 1990 his PhD at Souther Illinois University.
