Zhou En Lai

British

/ ɛn laɪ /

noun

the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese name for Chou En-lai

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Zhou En-lai Cultural

A Chinese political leader of the twentieth century. Zhou was a founder of the Chinese Communist party and an ally of Mao Zedong. As China's premier, he helped establish closer relations between his country and Western nations in the 1970s.

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In 1972 Henry Kissinger is reputed to have asked Zhou En Lai, the former Chinese premier, what he thought of the French Revolution.

From BBC

Zhou En Lai's response: "It's too early to know".

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