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 ...

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 ...

The Council on East Asian Studies, a part of Yale’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, hosted an annual lecture on Chinese studies on Thursday afternoon. The lecture, titled “Zhou ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 in ...

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 ...