Zhou, a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the 1920s, was prime minister 1949–76 and foreign minister 1949–58.
Zhou, a moderator between the opposing camps of Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong, restored orderly progress after the Great Leap Forward (1958–60) and the Cultural Revolution (1966–69), and was the architect of the Four Modernizations programme in 1975.
Abroad, Zhou sought to foster unity in the developing world at the Bandung Conference in 1955, averted an outright border confrontation with the USSR by negotiation with Prime Minister Kosygin in 1969, and was the principal advocate of détente with the USA during the early 1970s.
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Zhou first came to national prominence during the May Fourth Movement of 1919 when he led a raid on a local government office during the student protests against the humiliating Versailles Treaty Treaty of Versailles quick summary:
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Zhou first came to national prominence during the May Fourth Movement of 1919 when he led a raid on a local government office during the student protests against the humiliating Versailles Treaty.
Zhou spent the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) as CPC ambassador to Chiang's wartime government in Chongqing and took part in the failed negotiations following World War II.
Zhou was largely responsible for the re-establishment of contacts with the West in the early 1970s, he welcomed Richard Nixon to China in February 1972, and signed the Shanghai Communique.
Zhou returned (1924) to China and joined Sun Yat-sen, who was then cooperating with the Communists.
In 1949, with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China at Beijing, Zhou became premier and foreign minister.
A practical-minded administrator, Zhou maintained his position through all of Communist China’s ideological upheavals, including the Great Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
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ZHOUENLAI[ZhouEnlai] or Chou En-lai, 1898-1976, Chinese Communist leader.
He served (1924-26) as deputy director of the political department at the Whampoa Military Academy, of which Chiang Kai-shek was commandant.
A practical-minded administrator, Zhou maintained his position through all of Communist China's ideological upheavals, including the Great Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
