Abstract
In May 1981 though Zhou Enlai was supposed to be studying for the entrance exams of the First Higher School, his mind was elsewhere. In protest of the imminent signing of the secret Sino-Japanese Army Joint Defense Military Agreement, Chinese student leaders in Japan had organized the Great Republic of China (“ROC” hereafter) Salvation Corps and urged fellow students to boycott classes, return home immediately and engage in “reject-the-treaty movement” back home.
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Notes
Zhou Enlai, 19-sai no Tōkyō-nikki (Tokyo Diary at Age Nineteen), edited by Yabuki Susumu and translated by Suzuki Hiroshi, Tokyo: Shōgakukan-bunko, 1999 (“Tokyo Diary” hereafter), 221.
Ibid., 362–365; Tokyo Diary, 45; Sanetō Keishū, Chūgokujin Nihon ryūgakushikō (Manuscript of the History of Chinese Studying in Japan), edited by Ogawa Hiroshi, Tokyo: Fuji-shuppan, 1993, 139 and 191–193.
Jin Chongji, ed. (Principal Editor), Zhou Enlai zhuan (Biography of Zhou Enlai), edited by Zhonggong-zhongyang wenxian-yanjiushi, Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian-chubanshe, 1998, Vol. 1, 38; Tokyo Diary, 231.
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Itoh, M. (2016). Entrance Exams of First Higher School. In: The Origins of Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137566164_8
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