周恩来以中国共产党主要领导人身份,与美国人最早接触始于1936年,在延安接待美国记者。此后,直到1976年辞世,周恩来是中美关系史上一个举足轻重的人物。本文将集中探讨从延安时期到新中国建立前,周恩来与美国各界人士的交往,以及他代表中国共产党同美国进行的交涉,并就这一时期中共对美政策和中美关系的曲折变化,做一总体评论。 As the chief leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhou Enlai first started contact with Americans in 1936 and received U.S. reporters in Yan'an. Since then, until his death in 1976, Zhou Enlai was a pivotal figure in the history of Sino-American relations. This article will focus on the engagement of Zhou Enlai with people from all walks of life in the United States before the founding of New China from the Yan'an period and his representations on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party with the United States and on the tortuous changes in the CPC's policy toward the United States and Sino-U.S. Relations during this period A general comment.