Chou En lai
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Chou En-lai, or Zhou Enlai, was born in Hwaian, Kiangsu Province, on March 5th, in 1898 to a middle class family of Mandarin. He attended an American-supported school in China, and a Japanese University. He was jailed for several months in 1919 for student demonstrations, and upon his release, he went Paris to study from 1920-1922. While in Paris he became an activist in the expatriate Chinese communist movement by founding the Chinese Communist Group in Paris. He then studied for a few months in England, and then Germany. When he returned to China in 1924, he joined Sun Yat-sen and became an organizer for the Communist party and its ally of the time, the Kuomintang. From 1924-1926 he worked as the deputy director of the political department at the Whampoa Military Academy, of which Chiang Kai-shek was the commandant. After the Northern Expedition began, he worked as a labor organizer. In 1927 he directed a general strike in Shanghai, opening the city to Chiang's Nationalist forces. When Chiang broke with the Communist, executing many of his former allies, Chou became a fugitive from the Kuomintang...