Red star over China
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution.
| Main Author: | Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Grove Press,
[1968]
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| Physical Description: |
543 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st rev. and enl. ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by Dr. John K. Fairbank
- Preface to the revised edition
- Chronology: 125 years of Chinese revolution
- A note on Chinese pronunciation
- Part 1: In search of Red China
- Part 2: The road to the Red capital
- Part 3: In "defended peace"
- Part 4: Genesis of a communist
- Part 5: The long march
- Part 6: Red star in the northwest
- Part 7: En route to the front
- Part 8-9: With the Red army
- Part 10: War and peace
- Part 11: Back to Pao An
- Part 12: White world again
- Epilogue, 1944
- Notes to the revised edition
- Appendices. Abbreviations ; Further interviews with Mao Tse-tung ; Biographical notes ; Leadership in the Chinese Communist Party.