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Chou En-lai: see Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai or Chou En-lai (both: jō ĕn-lī), 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader. ..... Click the link for more information. . Zhou Enlaior Chou En-lai(born March 5, 1898, Huai'an, Jiangsu province, China—died Jan. 8, 1976, Beijing) Chinese communist leader, premier from the founding of the People's Republic of China until his death (1949–76). Zhou became a communist during his studies abroad in France and was an organizer for the Chinese Communist Party in Europe. Like other communists, he worked with the Nationalists in the early 1920s and escaped capture when Chiang Kai-shek purged his former allies in 1927. He joined Zhu De and Mao Zedong in Jiangxi province and became political commissar of the Red Army. In the 1930s he negotiated a tactical alliance with the Nationalists to resist Japanese aggression. When the communists prevailed over the Nationalists in 1949, Zhou became premier of the new People's Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution, Zhou helped restrain extremists; as the revolution waned in the early 1970s, he sought to restore Deng Xiaoping and other moderates to power. He is credited with arranging the historic meeting between U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon and Mao that paved the way for U.S. recognition of the communist government. Chou En-lai, Zhou En Lai 1898--1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949--58) and premier (1949--76) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Anderson cultivated Chou En-lai as a source, then (briefly) spied on Chinas Communist Party for U. And the Shah of Iran gave Richard Nixon a tray made of 22-karat gold, while the Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-Lai gave Nixon a jade flask in 1972. In 1956, Mao Tse-tung called on all Chinese to forgo traditional burials for cremation - sensible in a nation with so many people and not enough land - and he, Prime Minister Chou En-lai and Deng all pledged that they themselves would be cremated. |
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