Zhou Enlai : The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments Preface: Life and Career of an Enigmatic Revolutionary - 4 Chapter 1 Growing up in Huai'an, the Northeast, Tianjin and Japan: 1898-1920 - 9 Chapter 2 French lessons and revolutionary politics: 1920-4 - 37 Chapter 3 Guangzhou and the Huangpu Military Academy 1924-26: - 56 Chapter 4 In the eye of the storm, Shanghai and Wuhan: 1927 - 73 Chapter 5 Crisis for CCP and 6th Party Congress in Moscow: 1927-8 - 91 Chapter 6 Jiangxi Soviet: 1931-4 - 110 Chapter 7 Long March and Yan'an: 1936 - 128 Chapter 8 Xi'an - Kidnap and Resistance: 1937 - 140 Chapter 9 Partners at War: 1937-45 - 161 Chapter 10 Chongqing and Nanjing: War, Civil War and Liberation 1945-9 - 186 Chapter 11 Preparing for Power - Yan'an, Chongqing and Nanjing: 1943-6 -202 Chapter 12 Civil War to People's Republic: 1946-9 - 218 Chapter 13 Premier and Foreign Minister: 1949-55 - 230 Chapter 14 From rustic stage to international arena: 1954-5 - 254 Chapter 15 The Intelligentsia and Internal Power Struggles: 1955-7 - 267 Chapter 16 Asian Diplomatic mission: 1956-7 - 276 Chapter 17 'Rectification' and 'rightists': 1957 - 284 Chapter 18 Into the Crucible - the Great Leap Forward: 1958 - 294 Chapter 19 High Noon at Lushan: 1958-9 - 305 Chapter 20 Famine, Drought, and Recovery 1959-62 - 317 Chapter 21 Twilight of the Long March leadership: prelude to Cultural Revolution 1962-5 - 334 Chapter 22 From Natural Disaster to Political Catastrophe - the Cultural Revolution: 1966-7 - 345 Chapter 23 Descent into Chaos, Recovery and the Final Years: 1967-76 - 362 Conclusion: the revolutionary, the statesman and the man - 377 Bibliography - 376