Zhou Enlai was loved by the Chinese people; he was revered as a gentle and noble father. The Chinese people had due cause to admire such a man, Zhou managed to bring China through a bleak period of their history; the revolution. He is responsible for achieving a stabilized economy and bringing China out from isolation to become a member of the International community. It is justifiable to say that China's suffering would have been inestimably prolonged if it weren't for Zhou Enlai, Prime minister and foreign minister of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhou was born in 1898; he had an unhappy childhood which allowed him to acknowledge the hardships of life. Zhou began to become interested in Marxism and played an active role in student demonstrations. In 1920 he went to France, where he was instrumental in establishing the international branch of the Chinese Communist Party Youth Group. He returned to China in 1924. He held many important military and political posts in the CCP, and was a crucial personality in rebuilding the battered CCP organization after the split with the Nationalist Party. Furthermore he helped organize many important demonstrations. When the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, he became Prime minister and Foreign minister.
In 1955, during the Conference of the Non-aligned nations in Bandung, he announced his "Five principles of peaceful coexistence." These principles established China's credentials and earned the country much needed goodwill.
Through his role with the CCP, he maintained a firm relationship with Mao. This was a critical factor for his success, as although Zhou didn't agree totally with Mao, he never tainted his relationship with him, and thus he was able to maintain his position through the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Although Zhou believed firmly in Communism, he did not share Mao's fanaticism. Mao's internal policies were becoming more and more extreme; he launched the Great Leap Forward in the 1950s and the Cultural Revolution in the 60s.
On October 16th 1934 some 87,000 soldiers of the red army went out on retreat, which was planned by the trio of Bo Gu, Zhou Enlai and Otto Braun. ... Mao influenced his men and was said to be "right all the time" by Zhuo Enlai. ...
The Chinese leadership, and most prominently Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yun, and Chu Teh ("father" of the People's Liberation Army), consolidated power quickly and moved to gain the confidence of the Chinese population, particularly by solving the economic problems that had worsened during the civil war: the civil war had generated low levels of gross domestic output, high rates of inflation, and high levels of urban unemployment. ...
Becky Wieser A.P. History 3/4/00 Nixon's Presidential Administration A president is someone who is the highest executive officer of a company or a club, the chief executive, or sometimes the formal head of the United States of America. That is was a president is. Nobody really knows wh...
What legacy did Mao Zedong leave his successors? Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. The Chinese people know him both as a survivor and a tyrant. From his tactical success of the Long March to his embarrassing failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao has greatly influenced the result of what China is today. Most of Mao's major successes have been in the Cap's rise to power, while Mao's failure have come at the time when the CCP was in power. ...
Mainland Failure, Island Success: Comparing KMT Economic and Political Policies in China and Taiwan Introduction One does not need to search very thoroughly to find mountains of work on the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the revolution of 1949 or "miracle- economic growth on Taiwan after the Kuomintang (KMT or "Nationalists-) took power following its retreat from the mainland. What is difficult is finding literature that treats the two incidents of 1949 as two sides of the same coin. Because Taiwan quickly became a market-oriented, pro-capitalist American ally, whi...
