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Zhou Enlai

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Zhou Enlai

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Also known as Chou En-lai, Enlai Zhou, Premier Zhou

1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

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Zhou Enlai, whose courtesy name was 翔宇, was born on 1898-03-05 and died on 1976-01-08. He is associated with a body of work that includes titles such as 关于文艺工作的三次讲話, 周总理对外国报界人士的谈话, and Proposals for the second five-year plan for development of the national economy, 1958-1962. Open Library lists 130 works under his name, while Crossref records five.

His recorded statements include the assertion that "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means." He also noted, "For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail," and stated, "We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method." The subject is referenced by 2,272 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1898
Died
1976
Works
130

Top works

  • 关于文艺工作的三次讲話
  • 周总理对外国报界人士的谈话
  • 周恩來談話
  • Première année de victoire de la China nouvelle
  • Proposals for the second five-year plan for development of the national economy, 1958-1962

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
8

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity

    · 2004 · cited 50,045x

  2. fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor

    · 2018 · cited 27,726x

  3. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study

    · 2020 · cited 21,451x

  4. A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

    · 2020 · cited 17,367x

  5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,975x

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Quotes

  • “All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
  • “For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.”
  • “China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all … but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.”
  • “We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.”
  • “Nikita Khrushchev: You must acknowledge that I come from the working class, while you were born to a family of the bourgeoisie.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Zhou
Gender
male
Citizenship
Republic of China
Place of birth
Huai'an District
Place of death
Beijing
Spouse
Deng Yingchao
Occupation
politician
Educated at
Nankai University
Employer
China
Political party
Kuomintang
Languages spoken
German
Religion
atheism
Participant in
Asian–African Conference
Conflict
Long March
Military branch
National Revolutionary Army
Military rank
general
Image
Zhou Enlai MeiyuanXincun17 Nanjing 1946.jpg
Political ideology
communism
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courtesy name
翔宇
Commons category
Zhou Enlai
date of birth
1898-03-05
date of death
1976-01-08
ancestral home
Shaoxing
cause of death
bladder cancer
Commons Creator page
Zhou Enlai
manner of death
natural causes
Commons gallery
周恩来
topic's main category
Category:Zhou Enlai
name in native language
周恩來
ethnic group
Han Chinese people
relative
Li Peng
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Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
political alignment
far-left politics
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Encyclopedic overview

Courtesy name Chinese翔宇

Zhou Enlai (Chinese: 周恩来; pinyin: Zhōu Ēnlái; Wade–Giles: Chou Ên-lai; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from October 1949 until his death in January 1976. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong and aided the Communist Party in rising to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.

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