Abstract
Following in the footsteps of countless Chinese before him, Zhou Enlai went to study in Japan in order to become a government official in China. This was considered the best way to serve the nation in traditional Chinese society and was also Zhou’s family tradition. Simultaneously, Zhou looked for an alternative way to save his homeland from total destruction. In Japan, he was torn between two conflicting desires—to concentrate on his studies in order to become a government official or to search for the “truth” to save China. He agonised over how to save his homeland. In this sense, he was an exemplary filial son of China.
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Wang Yongxiang and Takahashi Tsuyoshi, eds., Riben liuxue-shiqi de Zhou Enlai (Zhou Enlai During his Study Period in Japan), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxianchubanshe, 2001, 73.
Wang and Takahashi, 64–66; Huai En, Zhou-zongli de qingshaonian-shidai (Youthful Period of Premier Zhou), Chengdu: Sichuan renmin-chubanshe and Sichuan-sheng xinhua-shudian, 1979, 68.
“Tong Qiyan”; Chae-jin Lee, Zhou Enlai: The Early Years, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994, 194n28.
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Itoh, M. (2016). Conclusion. In: The Origins of Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137566164_12
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