Interesting but lacking in some respects
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I wanted to read a biography of Zhou Enlai and this one is good enough to satisfy that need.
However the authors spend a lot of time on the later part of his life which are arguably more interesting but it is at a cost of understanding earlier years.
At first the book seems a bit dry and more like a chronology of events, then when the later chapters come it gets more compelling. I'm not sure if that is due to my own interest and knowledge or if the book got better. I think it's a bit of both.
It's a short book so it doesn't take long to read and it provides and interesting addition to learning about Mao and other things about the communist years in China. However the lack of photographs and the lack of detail make it less than it could be otherwise. For such an important figure in modern history it seems inadequate.
On the technical side: some things that do not seem important but do become noticable are the mistakes in English. It's fairly common throughout the book.
