CHINA’S GRANDEST music academy this month unveiled a full-length, Western-style opera about Zhou Enlai. The puzzle is that it took this long. Opera is arguably the only art form big enough to capture ...

Long-serving Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) played the conscience to Mao Zedong’s capricious lord of misrule, according to this sober biography. Historian Chen (Mao’s China and the Cold War) ...

Chen Jian, a history professor at Cornell University, discussed his upcoming biography of Zhou Enlai — the first Premier of the People's Republic of China — examining Zhou's role in Chinese political ...

January 8, 2026, marks the 50th anniversary of the passing away of late Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. Many netizens and media on Thursday commemorated his passing away. “There are as many warplanes as ...

Writing history is a dicey enterprise for Chinese scholars, and never more so than when the subject is a Communist Party figure like Zhou Enlai — China’s Premier from the founding of the People’s ...

COUNTRIES HAVE to make revealing choices as they craft patriotic messages for children. To put it kindly, young minds are tiny treasure-houses that deserve to be stocked with only a nation’s most ...

Students at Nankai University in Tianjin marked the 50th anniversary of the passing of Zhou Enlai, China's first premier, on Thursday with commemorative events highlighting his early revolutionary ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A book to be published in Hong Kong in the new year says Zhou Enlai, Communist China's much-respected first premier, was probably gay despite his long marriage, and had once been ...

Richard McGregor explains the misunderstanding behind Zhou Enlai’s famous utterance — “too soon to tell” — on the impact of the French Revolution: The former premier’s answer has become a... The New ...

With a unique perspective of the accompanying cameraman of Premier Zhou Enlai, the film tactfully tells the story that Premier Zhou went to the old revolutionary base area of Hebei Province at the ...