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Originally published in 1939, this is both a far-reaching history and an eyewitness account of the communist revolution in China. Contains a number of excellent historical photographs. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text a...

Edgar Snow, a native of Missouri, went to the Far East when he was twenty-two. He made his home in China for twelve years, studied the country and the language and lectured at Yenching University in Peking, where his friends included students who are among China's leaders today. As a foreign correspondent in China, Burma, India and Indochina, he worked successively for the Chicago Tribune, New York Sun, New York Herald Tribune and London Daily...

Snow's chapters on India provide one of the clearest and most comprehensible analyses of the apparently irreconcilable elements in Indian affairs that has ever been written. Those on Russia will be required reading, to help understand the development of US/USSR post-war relations. His report on China was written with a background of years of knowledge unparalleled among Western writers.

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. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China. Th...

Originally published in 1939, this is both a far-reaching history and an eyewitness account of the communist revolution in China. Contains a number of excellent historical photographs. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text a...

Nell'estate del 1936 il giornalista statunitense Edgar Snow, da qualche anno inviato speciale nella Cina di Chiang Kai-shek, intraprese un viaggio che aveva già allora il sapore dell'epopea. Snow fu il primo occidentale a varcare il confine dei territori controllati dai rivoluzionari di Mao Zedong, incontrandoli da vicino, accolto come un amico nelle loro case-grotta dello Shaanxi settentrionale. Da quei nove formidabili mesi nacque un reporta...