Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Chou En-Lai, also Zhou Enlai

First Premier of the People's Republic of China and Diplomat, instrumental in the Communist Party's rise to power, and subsequently in the development of the Chinese economy and restructuring of Chinese society.

"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."

"China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory."