Author | Edgar Snow |
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Language | English |
Subject | an account of the Chinese Communist Party written when they were a guerrilla army still obscure to Westerners |
Published | 1937 |
Publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd[1], Random House |
Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1937 |
Pages | 474 |
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]