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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while true d season 1 is (perhaps fairly) criticized for its characterizations of women, one underappreciated aspect that i've really grown to love upon rewatch is how different rust is around maggie vs how he is around marty or the other cop characters. he actually talks earnestly about his emotional baggage and trauma with her without leaning on the wall of his nihilistic persona nearly as much, and is vulnerable and sincere with her in a way that he isn't with most of the other characters (except of course Marty at the very end, after his near death experience and epiphany). it's like, when he's away from the world of men and machismo he can actually dish about the shit that's shaped him without illusion or macho performance. like obviously he has a crush on her as well and that ends poorly and also informs his behavior, but regardless their scenes also depict man-woman friendships and the unique perspectives they provide in a really gentle and understated way (especially pronounced b/c it's with a character who is usually somewhat larger than life like rust, by contrast he really shows more of his grounded humanity in these scenes w/ maggie).
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lol i mean, at the end both protagonists are "feminized" a bit in their personalities and it's depicted as an unalloyed positive development of their characters, so u could very well be on to something...
also you see how she trusts him in a way that she doesn't with the other, more typical toxic men in the hyper-masculine world her husband resides. like she realizes hes more likely to be honest about Marty's infidelity than the rest when she calls him for info on that, she talks through his thought processes on relationships with him when her first date set-up doesn't work out in a frank way, she (somewhat cruelly, but fairly) calls him out on his own macho bullshit in a way that shows a mutual respect and honesty between them when he's trying to help Marty patch shit up with her. idk, shame it ends the way it does because i honestly think their relationship is mostly sweet and compelling up until that point.
also also, also ima be real IRL she probably should've/would've just left Marty for Rust instead of doing a weird ploy to cheat in such a way that Marty wouldn't forgive, I honestly think they could've been really good together and Marty deserved that shit with what an abusive cheating piece of trash he'd been fr fr. Guess I'm a Raggie shipper, w/e.