China’s longest-serving premier was a remarkably capable yet deeply flawed politician who tried, often in vain, to mitigate the impact of Mao’s disastrous policies. A new biography cuts through ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- A new, critical biography of China's beloved premier, Zhou Enlai, has captivated the upper echelons of the country's academic and political world with its charges that dictator Mao Zedong ...

From a Teletype within the United Nations’ slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the ...

Zhou Enlai's death thirty years ago this year gave rise to the April 5th movement. Or was it May 4th? The Useless Tree gives us a refresher, and more. “There are no official commemorations of the 1976 ...

This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...

President Nixon at the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square for the welcome banquet organized by Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. Food and politics have always been intertwined—not just in ...