This is the Faustian question that hovers over Chen Jian’s new biography of China’s longtime premier, Zhou Enlai. Nearly 50 years after his death, Zhou still enjoys a reputation in China as a leader ...

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 ...

First lady Pat Nixon was sitting beside Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai at a banquet in Beijing ... “The Miracle Panda,” a Smithsonian Channel documentary on the zoo’s giant panda program ...

A book to be published in Hong Kong in the new year says the People’s Republic of China’s much respected first premier, Zhou Enlai (周恩來), was probably gay despite his long marriage, and had once been ...

Handsome and urbane, Zhou Enlai presented a modern, progressive face of China at home and abroad during more than 25 years as the country's first premier. Like Mao Zedong, he was a colossal figure ...

Paintings by three artists are shown in Tianjin in memory of late premier Zhou Enlai. [Photo provided to China Daily] Tianjin saw the youth of late premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), who grew into a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wendelou, former home of late premier Zhou Enlai in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. [Photo by Zheng Erqi/China Daily] Wendelou, also known as Wende Mansion, the former residence of late premier ...

hou Enlai, who served as China’s prime minister for 17 years, has left his imprint not just on the history of China but on the history of the world. While he always operated under the shadow of ...