 Zhou has sometimes been portrayed at this time as uncertain in his politics, but his swift move to Communism suggests otherwise.The cell Zhou belonged to was based in Paris; in addition to Zhou, Zhang, and Liu it included two other students, Zhao Shiyan and Chen Gongpei.Over the next several months, this group eventually formed a united organization with a group of Chinese radicals from Hunan, who were living in Montargis south of Paris.