Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 Asian–African Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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it's a shame about the hetero norms around height because i think it'd be kind of a mood to feel like i was a tall queen's underling or even minion/goon (fuck off vol cel pigs i do what i want i talk about what i want)
alternately it would be like a forbidden romance in the rpg party btwn the puckish half-elf rogue whose sharp tongue belies a tendency to love big and feel loss very deeply and the steely-but-principled high elf priestess whose been hurt one too many times by this cruel world but really just wants safety and peace for all living things, who is slowly won over by the formers lighthearted antics and hidden, poetic depths
Not revolutionary, lesbians have been knowing this for ages. However I support poor hets getting over themselves re: height and awakening to the finer things in life.
on the one hand, people are allowed their physical preferences for sure and those are bound to be informed by societal norms of conventional attractiveness (though these are def worth interrogating and i do think in that process they can often organically shift), but on the other hand some peeps be ruthless in their dating app profiles about this shit lmao (but also also it would simply be cool and good to feel like a tall lady's henchman
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