A Brief Interview With Zhou Enlai, 4-10 September 1996

• Main Author: Brickhouse, Kevin
• Other Authors: NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Government and Political Science; Personnel Management and Labor Relations; *INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; *BIOGRAPHIES; *INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; *INTERVIEWING; POTOMAC RIVER; HALL EFFECT; CHINA; DEATH; RECEPTION; ACCUMULATION; ZHOU ENLAI; Roosevelt Island
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA442502; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA442502

The following interview was conducted 4 thru 10 September 1996 between Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Brickhouse, United States Mat-me Corps, and the former Premier of the State Council of The People's Republic of China, The Honorable Zhou Enlar. The sites for the interviews were rotated in order to protect the subject from too much scutiny and interruption. The mutual interview took place in the great reception hall of the Chinese Embassy in the Kalorama area of Washington DC The most fruitful of the $subsequent sites was Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River. The Premier likened his fondness of the outdoors to that of the former president for whom the island is named and attributed his personal appreciation of nature to his first trip to Japan in 1917 and, to no small extent, his participation in the Long March. All the discussions with the Premier were electronically taped to facilitate biographical sketch accumulations in the author's personal library. Out of a necessity for brevity the following is an edited transcription of those tapes. In as much as this interview was granted some twenty year after the death of its Subject some favorably selfish hindsight by the Premier may be expected and perhaps warranted. It is my hope that my gross unconsistencies with reality and historical fact, at least as they appear today, be graciously accepted by the reader with a gram of salt and a sympathetic understanding of the difficulty in arranging the interview Brickhouse/Alexandria, VA.