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...Republic until his death in 1976, and still regarded by the vast majority of Chinese as a saint. "Ordinary people thought he was a good man," says Gao Wenqian, once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. "He is like a valuable antique in people's living rooms," Gao says. "If you tell them that it's fake or that it has a crack in it, they cannot accept...
...Last Perfect Revolutionary, Gao takes an almost psychoanalytical approach to describing a relationship that, more than any other, shaped China's modern history. Zhou, though never personally friendly with Mao, regarded him as an imperial figure. Zhou's guiding philosophy might have been taken from the Confucian Analects: "If the emperor asks you to die, you should die." And, indeed, Mao apparently asked no less. Gao confirms an assertion made in Mao: The Unknown Story, the 2005 biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, that Mao purposefully denied Zhou medical care for the cancer that ultimately killed him. Gao even...
...world after energy-rich Kuwait and Qatar. The report cited Tunisia's low corruption, stable government and educated, French-speaking population. Lying close to Europe's huge markets, and with an enticingly low-cost, well-trained workforce, Tunisia is increasingly seen by European and U.S. companies as a near-perfect base. French carmaker Peugeot recognized these advantages when it recently opted to move its customer-service call center from Lyons to Tunis...
...lackluster effort of three years past. Friday, Nov. 2. Lowell House. $5. 5) Starlight, Starbright… Make a wish on a star at The Gilliland Observatory on top of the Museum of Science’s garage roof, open for free viewings every Friday night. The perfect date for you and that cutie you’ve been eyeing in your science fiction class. First come, first served. Friday evenings, 8:30-10 p.m., weather permitting...
...cobblestone sidewalks of the Square. After ushering in the first Red Sox title in 86 years as freshmen, this year’s graduating class has the distinction of starting and ending their Harvard tenure with Red Sox World Series championships. “This is the perfect way to end my senior year,” said Marissa L. Long ’08. “Freshman year was definitely exciting, especially since [as Boston fans] we had waited our entire lives to win,” she added. “But it’s still...