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While in Europe, Zhou studied the differing approaches to resolving class conflict adopted by various European nations.

In London on January 1929, Zhou witnessed a large miners ' strike and wrote a series of articles for the Yishi bao ( generally sympathetic to the miners ) examining the conflict between workers and employers, and the conflict's resolution.

After five weeks in London he moved to Paris, where interest in Russia's 1917 October Revolution was high.

In a letter to his cousin, Zhou identified two broad paths of reform for China: " gradual reform " ( as in England ) or " violent means " ( as in Russia ).

Zhou wrote that " I do not have a preference for either the Russian or the British way ...

I would prefer something in-between, rather than one of these two extremes.