Stories of China’s First Premier, Zhou Enlai

The Center for Chinese Studies presents its Understanding China Series #5-Comunity Voice, featuring Zhou Xiaofang, a grand-niece of the former Premier, co-founder of the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute in America; Michael North, a co-founder of the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute and original founder of North Communications; Elisabet Sahtouris, a European-American evolutionary biologist and one of the first American students to visit Beijing in the early 1970s, and was Professor in Residence at Chaminade University, teaching in the School of Business & Communication MBA Program; and Ma Mengjia, a Chinese engineer, project manager and public speaker, and China’s Ambassador to World Speech Day.
The panel will discuss Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of modern China, and how to connect his extraordinary life story with our challenging times. Four speakers present key stories about Zhou’s family; life as a student-writer during pre-Revolutionary days; role in the Xi’an Incident; pivotal events during the liberation wars; writing and promotion of the Five Principles of Peace and the Non-Aligned Movement; and his moral leadership as premier and foreign minister, seeking the middle way of peace.