Returning to Tokyo

Abstract

Zhou Enlai returned to Tokyo in September 1918 after spending a month in Tianjin and Beijing, but this period is shrouded in mystery. He stopped writing his diary every day the way he used to earlier. Entries for the fall of 1918 became conspicuously sparse, basically reduced to a mere record of correspondence, with some exceptions. This chapter attempts to reconstruct Zhou’s life from September 1918 to the end of the year based on clues in the Diary of Travel to Japan of Zhou Enlai (“Zhou’s Diary” hereafter, see Chapter 1), along with other available documents.