Former premier's new book talks about old days
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Former Chinese Premier Li Peng will publish his new self-biography "Reminiscences of Li Peng (1928-1983)" this July, Oriental Morning Post reports.
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Former Chinese Premier Li Peng (left) met Deng Yingchao, wife of China's first premier Zhou Enlai in Zhongnanhai, the headquarters of the Chinese government in February, 1988. More than 130 precious photos are published in Li's new self-biography, which will be published this July. [Photo: Oriental Morning Post] |
In his new book, the 86-year-old former premier tells his stories from 1928 to 1983, including his relations with many famous revolutionary figures and his love story with his wife Zhu Lin.
Born in a revolutionary family in 1928, Li met many famous figures growing up.
He met Zhou Enlai, former Chinese Premier, for the first time in 1940 in southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
According to Li's memory, there were two things about Zhou which deeply impressed him.
The first one is that Zhou once educated Li to put things back to their original place after he used them. While the other is that Li saw Zhou talked and took notes carefully with some cadres who were under investigation at that time.
Li said Zhou's orderly life and serious working attitude influenced him a lot.
However, Li denied the rumor saying that he was Zhou's foster son. He explained that Zhou and his wife Deng Yingchao took care of all of the children of their revolutionary companions, including him.
In 1942, Li Peng met Mao Zedong in Yan'an.
During their talk, Li said he admired Cao Cao, a warlord who rose to great power in the final years of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Chinese classic novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", because Cao showed his ability of uniting cadres who used to betray him before.
Mao praised Li, and Mao himself also talked about uniting all the strength they could unite later, including those who had admitted and corrected their mistakes.
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