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...sure would actually take place. Yet as Nixon was going over his briefing books and practicing how to use chopsticks en route to Beijing, the seriously ill Mao was getting his first shave and haircut in months. As soon as Air Force One landed and Nixon greeted Premier Zhou Enlai with a prolonged handshake, Mao ordered Zhou to bring the President immediately to his house in Zhongnanhai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Met Mao | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...authors cite estimates that 38 million people died of starvation and overwork during the Great Leap Forward. Mao, meanwhile, stuck to his misguided industrialization plans, blithely commenting that "half of China may well have to die.") In the 1970s, Mao even forbade surgery for his loyal No. 2, Zhou Enlai, who was suffering from cancer of the bladder, in part to ensure that Zhou would not outlive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mao That Roared | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...Nixon was allowed to go from the airport to a guest bungalow, and to lunch with Premier Zhou Enlai. But then he was whisked to meet Mao, and the history books describe a meeting of civilizations that was as weird and awkward as it was historic. Mao and Zhou wanted to discuss the recent coup attempt by Lin Biao, Mao's chosen successor; Nixon didn't seem to understand them. He and Henry Kissinger flattered the Chairman. When Kissinger referred to Mao as a "professional philosopher," Mao laughed and asked, "He is a doctor of philosophy?" Nixon's reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting To Know One Another | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...buyers. By the following August, Basquiat was dead as well. How will the future regard him and his brethren? "Dying young is the easy way out," says Longo. "It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going." It pays to keep in mind something Zhou Enlai once said. On the bicentennial of the French Revolution, someone asked the erstwhile Chinese Communist Party leader what he thought its legacy would be. His answer: "It's too soon to tell." He should have been an art critic. --With reporting by Amy Lennard Goehner

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does '80s Art Look Now? | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...enterprising young journalist, who manages to meet many of the epoch's most colorful and influential characters?from Chiang, whose cozy relationship with TIME's editor-in-chief Henry Luce makes Rowan wonder if his stories will be censored, to China's impressively urbane first Premier, Zhou Enlai, to the aging ink-scroll master Qi Baishi, who, fearful of the Communists' hostility to his art, locks up his paints at night and wears the key on a rope around his waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dangerous Lark | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

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