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Zhou Enlai: Mean Or Nice?

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

When my daughters were four or five years old, I would love to mention someone they knew and then ask, "mean or nice?" I would give them maybe 2-3 seconds to answer and I would then blurt out another name. They would outgrow the game (and prove themselves too nuanced to run for political office) once they started to hedge by trying to explain how someone was sometimes mean and sometimes nice. With apologies to Jeremiah over at the Granite Studio, who somehow manages to find subtlety in Chinese history, and with a thumbing of my nose to those who will write in and accuse me of being simplistic (duh!), here goes the Chinese history version. Zhou Enlai, mean or nice?

Full post as published by China Law Blog on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).