Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow, a prominent journalist and the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, was given exclusive access to these men for the purposes of writing a book about the origins of 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. This edition includes extensive notes on military and political developments in China from 1935 to 1976, an updated chronology covering 125 years of Chinese revolution, and nearly a hundred detailed biographies of the men and women who were instrumental in making China what it is today.