Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai

This book comprises a range of Chinese primary documents as well as interviews in Beijing detailing the policies, principles and methods used by Zhou Enlai to sustain his practice of diplomacy as a committed revolutionary in the pursuit of China's "independence and self-reliance".

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"Rational" diplomacy in the service of revolution; the making of the diplomat in revolution, 1919-49; establishing the foreign ministry in cold war; peaceful co-existence vs containment at Geneva and Bandung; "peaceful co-existence" and the Sino-Soviet split; Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru and estranged "Afro-Asian unity"; the "revolutionary diplomatic line" in the cultural revolution; strategy and "realism" in Sino-American normalization; Zhou Enlai's legacy - towards independent foreign policy".