ZHOU ENLAI,FIRST PRESIDENT OF CHINA DIED 1976 JANUARY 8
ZHOU ENLAI,FIRST PRESIDENT OF CHINA DIED 1976 JANUARY 8 Handsome and urbane, Zhou Enlai presented a modern, progressive face of China at home and abroad during more than 25 years as the country's first premier. Like Mao Zedong, he was a colossal figure in the Communist Party. Unlike Mao, he has survived multiple revisions of China's tumultuous, often bloody history with his reputation largely intact. And now, a new book, published in Hong Kong, reveals that he may have been hiding a secret that would shock many who are familiar with his official biography . Tsoi Wing-mui, author of the Secret Emotional Life of Zhou Enlai, writes that the premier was gay, and harboured a lifelong love for Li Fujing, a family friend and classmate two years his junior. "Zhou Enlai was a tragic figure," she told BBC News. "He was very famous and always under the media spotlight. But there were many aspects of his life that were like riddles and difficult to ex...