Red Star Over China

Red Star Over China
Cover art of the first edition
AuthorEdgar Snow
LanguageEnglish
Subjectan account of the Chinese Communist Party written when they were a guerrilla army still obscure to Westerners
Published1937
PublisherVictor Gollancz Ltd[1], Random House
Publication placeUnited States
Published in English
1937
Pages474
Mao Zedong in 1931

Red Star Over China is a 1937 book by Edgar Snow. It is an account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that was written when it was a guerrilla army and still obscure to Westerners. Along with Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth (1931), it was the most influential book on Western understanding of China as well as the most influential book on Western sympathy for Red China in the 1930s.[2]

  1. ^ "Red Star Over China". Rooke Books. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. ^ Harold Isaacs, Scratches on Our Minds, (New York: John Day, 1958; rpr. White Plains, 1989): 155 n. 71, 162-163.

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