Zhou Enlai Biography

Argues that the Chinese Revolution will develop through stages, a pre-1949 context later rejected by Cultural Revolution radicals

Zhou Enlai meets George Marshall during negotiations over ceasefire and political settlement

Zhou Enlai negotiates with George Marshall while the Communists present themselves as an independent Chinese political force

Zhou Enlai appeals for a coalition government at the Political Consultative Conference

Zhou Enlai supports the conference agreements on government reorganisation and constitutional principles

Zhou Enlai continues negotiations with Nationalist and American representatives as fighting spreads

Zhou Enlai and the Communist Party reject participation in the National Assembly

Zhou Enlai orders protection for selected monuments, archives and leading figures during Red Guard violence

Zhou Enlai tells the State Council that party and state organs must not surrender control to mob violence

Zhou Enlai presides over a rally honouring Sun Yat-sen during the political turmoil

Zhou Enlai tries to manage the spread of power seizures after the Shanghai January Storm

Zhou Enlai intervenes during the Wuhan Incident to contain conflict between radicals and the army

Zhou Enlai announces that the first stage of the Cultural Revolution has achieved victory

Zhou Enlai declares political victory while trying to restore administrative order

Zhou Enlai calls for order and discipline as factional violence disrupts government and production

Zhou Enlai works to rebuild ministries and foreign policy after the Lin Biao crisis

Zhou Enlai presents the Four Modernizations at the Fourth National People's Congress

Zhou Enlai dies, weakening moderate forces in the final year of the Cultural Revolution

Death of Zhou Enlai