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Zhou Enlai The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao

Dillon Michael
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781788319300
Publisert
2020-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
I.B. Tauris
Vekt
524 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Dillon Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and has been Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is the author of China: A Modern History and Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Made Modern China (both I.B.Tauris)

Zhou Enlai The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao

Dillon Michael
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Dillon Michael
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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[A] welcome addition to the literature on one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century. His prose is accessible and elegant. It is a useful text for the general reader and for any course on modern East Asia and twentieth-century China.

China Review International

Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the ‘power behind the throne’ – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai’s long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s. Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China’s modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and communist leader Mao Zedong, whom he served under as China’s first premier from 1949 until 1976. Zhou was also a major ally of Deng Xiaoping – a source, for example, of major influence on his ‘Four Modernizations’ in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. He was thus the prime architect of China’s drive towards superpower status and one of the key determinants of China’s central role in the modern world. Zhou does not conform readily to any of the stereotypes of communist leaders, Chinese or otherwise. Cultivated and urbane, he was a sympathetic and intellectual character, who was well-liked by non-communists, foreigners and his staff. He was one of the most complex figures in the politics of contemporary China, and certainly one of the most interesting, although his influence was never all that obvious. In this book, Michael Dillon restores him to his rightful place in history and analyses the role of a man who was ‘a genuine statesman rather than just a political operator’.
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AcknowledgmentsPreface: Life and Career of an Enigmatic Revolutionary - 4Chapter 1 Growing up in Huai’an, the Northeast, Tianjin and Japan: 1898-1920 - 9Chapter 2 French lessons and revolutionary politics: 1920-4 - 37Chapter 3 Guangzhou and the Huangpu Military Academy 1924-26: - 56Chapter 4 In the eye of the storm, Shanghai and Wuhan: 1927 - 73Chapter 5 Crisis for CCP and 6th Party Congress in Moscow: 1927-8 – 91Chapter 6 Jiangxi Soviet: 1931-4 - 110Chapter 7 Long March and Yan’an: 1936 - 128Chapter 8 Xi’an - Kidnap and Resistance: 1937 - 140Chapter 9 Partners at War: 1937-45 - 161Chapter 10 Chongqing and Nanjing: War, Civil War and Liberation 1945-9 - 186Chapter 11 Preparing for Power - Yan’an, Chongqing and Nanjing: 1943-6 -202Chapter 12 Civil War to People’s Republic: 1946-9 - 218Chapter 13 Premier and Foreign Minister: 1949-55 - 230Chapter 14 From rustic stage to international arena: 1954-5 – 254Chapter 15 The Intelligentsia and Internal Power Struggles: 1955-7 – 267Chapter 16 Asian Diplomatic mission: 1956-7 - 276 Chapter 17 ‘Rectification’ and ‘rightists’: 1957 – 284Chapter 18 Into the Crucible - the Great Leap Forward: 1958 - 294Chapter 19 High Noon at Lushan: 1958-9 – 305Chapter 20 Famine, Drought, and Recovery 1959-62 – 317Chapter 21 Twilight of the Long March leadership: prelude to Cultural Revolution 1962-5 – 334Chapter 22 From Natural Disaster to Political Catastrophe - the Cultural Revolution: 1966-7 – 345Chapter 23 Descent into Chaos, Recovery and the Final Years: 1967-76 – 362Conclusion: the revolutionary, the statesman and the man - 377Bibliography - 376
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A new political biography of China's 'power behind the throne' Zhou Enlai
Essential biography for understanding China's twentieth century development

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[A] welcome addition to the literature on one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century. His prose is accessible and elegant. It is a useful text for the general reader and for any course on modern East Asia and twentieth-century China.

China Review International

Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the ‘power behind the throne’ – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai’s long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s. Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China’s modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and communist leader Mao Zedong, whom he served under as China’s first premier from 1949 until 1976. Zhou was also a major ally of Deng Xiaoping – a source, for example, of major influence on his ‘Four Modernizations’ in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. He was thus the prime architect of China’s drive towards superpower status and one of the key determinants of China’s central role in the modern world. Zhou does not conform readily to any of the stereotypes of communist leaders, Chinese or otherwise. Cultivated and urbane, he was a sympathetic and intellectual character, who was well-liked by non-communists, foreigners and his staff. He was one of the most complex figures in the politics of contemporary China, and certainly one of the most interesting, although his influence was never all that obvious. In this book, Michael Dillon restores him to his rightful place in history and analyses the role of a man who was ‘a genuine statesman rather than just a political operator’.
Les mer
AcknowledgmentsPreface: Life and Career of an Enigmatic Revolutionary - 4Chapter 1 Growing up in Huai’an, the Northeast, Tianjin and Japan: 1898-1920 - 9Chapter 2 French lessons and revolutionary politics: 1920-4 - 37Chapter 3 Guangzhou and the Huangpu Military Academy 1924-26: - 56Chapter 4 In the eye of the storm, Shanghai and Wuhan: 1927 - 73Chapter 5 Crisis for CCP and 6th Party Congress in Moscow: 1927-8 – 91Chapter 6 Jiangxi Soviet: 1931-4 - 110Chapter 7 Long March and Yan’an: 1936 - 128Chapter 8 Xi’an - Kidnap and Resistance: 1937 - 140Chapter 9 Partners at War: 1937-45 - 161Chapter 10 Chongqing and Nanjing: War, Civil War and Liberation 1945-9 - 186Chapter 11 Preparing for Power - Yan’an, Chongqing and Nanjing: 1943-6 -202Chapter 12 Civil War to People’s Republic: 1946-9 - 218Chapter 13 Premier and Foreign Minister: 1949-55 - 230Chapter 14 From rustic stage to international arena: 1954-5 – 254Chapter 15 The Intelligentsia and Internal Power Struggles: 1955-7 – 267Chapter 16 Asian Diplomatic mission: 1956-7 - 276 Chapter 17 ‘Rectification’ and ‘rightists’: 1957 – 284Chapter 18 Into the Crucible - the Great Leap Forward: 1958 - 294Chapter 19 High Noon at Lushan: 1958-9 – 305Chapter 20 Famine, Drought, and Recovery 1959-62 – 317Chapter 21 Twilight of the Long March leadership: prelude to Cultural Revolution 1962-5 – 334Chapter 22 From Natural Disaster to Political Catastrophe - the Cultural Revolution: 1966-7 – 345Chapter 23 Descent into Chaos, Recovery and the Final Years: 1967-76 – 362Conclusion: the revolutionary, the statesman and the man - 377Bibliography - 376
Les mer
A new political biography of China's 'power behind the throne' Zhou Enlai
Essential biography for understanding China's twentieth century development

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781788319300
Publisert
2020-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
I.B. Tauris
Vekt
524 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Dillon Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and has been Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is the author of China: A Modern History and Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Made Modern China (both I.B.Tauris)

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