Possible Clues:

• Character in John Adams' opera ''Nixon in China''
• Subject of an Andy Warhol silkscreen held by the Art Institute of Chicago
• Unprepared Chinese leader (who had secretly planned to get...)
• "A revolution is not a dinner party" leader
• Head of state with guns to tame rioting
• One-time red head
• Autumn Harvest Uprising leader
• Chiang Ch'ing's mate
• Chinaman gets man out possibly