Similar to John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, which influential 1930s book by Edgar Snow is an account of the Communist Party of China?
"been both praised as prescient and blamed for the rise of Mao's communism. Some China historians have judged Snow's writing very positively. John K. Fairbank praised Snow's reporting for giving the West the first articulate account of the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership, which he called ""disastrously prophetic"". Writing thirty years after the first publication of ""Red Star Over China"", Fairbank stated that the book had ""stood the test of time... both as a historical record and as an indication of a trend."" Fairbank agrees that Snow was used by Mao, but defended Snow against the allegation that he"
"(its alternative title is ""Ten Days that Shook the World""). At one point in the 1946 film ""Blood on the Sun"" socialist/communist screenwriter Lester Cole has one of two characters, played by James Cagney and Sylvia Sydney who are planning on spending ten days together, utter the line, ”Ten days that shook the world.” Ten Days That Shook the World Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during"
"retreat to escape destruction by the Kuomintang, known as The Long March. It was through the Long March that much of the Western world was first introduced to the communists in China via ""Red Star Over China"", a narrative of the march and introductory biography for several Communist leaders, by the American journalist, Edgar Snow. In what would be the dominant American perception of the CCP before the Communist victory, Snow reported that Mao was not a radical revolutionary, downplaying his calls for class struggle and highlighting his anti-imperialist rhetoric, and many readers got the impression that the Chinese communists"
"of John Reed's legendary chronicle of the Russian Revolution, ""Ten Days That Shook the World."" Originally published by Boni & Liveright in 1919, an International Publishers edition came out in 1926 and — except for a time during the reign of Joseph Stalin, when the book fell out of official favor — it has been a mainstay of the publishing house's catalog ever since. International Publishers has also published a considerable number of memoir accounts by leading Communist Party participants, including those of William ""Big Bill"" Haywood (1929), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1930), William Z. Foster (two volumes, 1937 and 1930), Ella"
"Ten Days That Shook the World Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders. John Reed was on an assignment for ""The Masses"", a magazine of"
"on the Communist Part of China. In 1936, international journalist Edgar Snow traveled and interviewed leading members of the Communist Party of China. Snow reported that Mao was a reformer rather than a radical revolutionary, and many readers got the impression that the Chinese communists were ""agrarian reformers."" In the 1944 Dixie Mission, US Colonel John Service visited the Communists and praised them, claimed that they were democratic reformers, likening them to European socialists rather than Soviet Communists and claimed that they were less corrupt and chaotic than the Nationalists. US Ambassador to China Clarence Gauss recommended the United States"
"become leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Edgar and Helen opened their home to student activists during this time as a safe place to develop plans of the student movement and Communist Party. The couple helped translate ""Living China"", a collection of stories that served as a modern left-wing literary work. Helen also produced and dispersed anti-fascist documents to students. In addition, the Snows produced a magazine in 1937 called ""Democracy,"" which was intended to spread Christian ethics. Edgar was intended to be the driving force behind the magazine, however, Helen took charge as her husband worked on his book."
"problems the book poses, that is its reliability."" Martin Bernal told readers of the ""New Statesman"" that ""Fanshen"" ""gives details of the changing social and economic structure of his village... The descriptions alone make this book one of the two classics of the Chinese revolution, the other being ""Red Star over China"","" the 1937 book by Edgar Snow. William Jenner in ""Modern Asian Studies"" called it ""one of the most profound and instructive books ever written by a Westerner about modern China... "" Jenner wrote: The anthropologist Ann Anagnost, writing in 1994 ""perhaps the book that most changed American cold"
"did not remove the implicit criticisms of Stalin. The 1944 edition was allowed to go out of print in the 1950s, but Snow made substantial revisions and annotations for the Grove Press reprint of 1968. Edgar Snow, ""Red Star over China"" London: Left Book Club, Victor Gollancz, 1937; this edition reprinted as ""Red Star Over China – The Rise Of The Red Army"". (2006; ). --, (New York: Random House, 1938). Some changes from the London edition. --, (Garden City, 1939) ""Revised,"" with six extra chapters. --, (New York: Modern Library, 1944). --, (New York: Grove, 1968) Extensive revisions, with"
"attending Marine Corps Schools, and studying International Law and Politics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He went back to China for the third time in 1937 as an official student of the Chinese language and as a military observer with Chinese forces. There he was afforded the opportunity to learn the tactics of the Japanese soldier. He met Edgar Snow in China and read Snow's ""Red Star Over China"". This encounter led him to visit the Chinese communist troop headquarters in northern China, where he met Chinese Communist leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping."
"was eventually successful in creating 1,850 workers' cooperatives. Snow again visited Mao in Yan'an in 1939. Edgar Snow reported on the Nanking Massacre, and even reported Japanese reactions to it, stating: In Shanghai a few Japanese deeply felt the shame and the humiliation. I remember, for example, talking one evening to a Japanese friend, a liberal-minded newspaper man who survived by keeping his views to himself, and whose name I withhold for his own protection. ""Yes, they are all true,"" he unexpectedly admitted when I asked him about some atrocity reports, ""only the facts are actually worse than any story"
"China from the travels of Marco Polo. Mosher takes the title ""Age of Infatuation"" from Harold Isaacs's classic ""Scratches on Our Minds"" (1958) to describe the period during the 1930s and 1940s in which Communist China was presented as a progressive force following Edgar Snow's 1938 work, ""Red Star Over China"". The misperceptions of the West in regard to China have waxed and waned through the belief in the ""Yellow Peril"" to the model ""Maoist Man"" of Communist China. Mosher alleges self-deception was apparent in U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China and the change from hard-line anti-communist to raising"
"were common at the time. Edgar Snow in ""Red Star Over China"" mentions them as something he had heard but had correctly disbelieved.) China's Red Army Marches China's Red Army Marches (1934) is a history book by Agnes Smedley, also published in the USSR as ""Red Flood Over China"". This book gives a detailed account of the Chinese Soviet Republic in Jiangxi from 1928 to 1931, ending with the proclamation of the Soviet Republic of China in 1931. It has been described as pioneering ""a new form of socially conscious art that considerably influenced leftist reportage in the 1930s"", because"
"""Red Bells II"" (1983), both directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, with Franco Nero as Reed. John Reed (journalist) John Silas ""Jack"" Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for ""Ten Days That Shook the World"", his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution. He married the writer and feminist Louise Bryant in 1916. Reed died of typhus in Russia in 1920. He is one of three Americans honored by being buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis (the others are labor organizer Bill Haywood and Charles Ruthenburg, founder of the Communist Party"
"neither Tibetan nor Chinese sources in his book. Regarding American journalist Edgar Snow (1905–1972), Grunfeld has concluded that he was not a Communist Party member, although he was sympathetic: Having read through several decades (1920s-1960s) of Snow's diaries, countless pages of correspondence, his FBI file, two biographies, at least one MA thesis and countless articles leads me to believe he was not a member of the CPUSA... That he was sympathetic to some of their ideas and activities is, to my mind, beyond doubt. Grunfeld has received numerous awards funding travel and research from institutions including the National Endowment for"
"the Chinese Communist movement including Edgar Snow and his wife Helen (Peggy), Owen Lattimore and Karl August Wittfogel. Snow had arranged for Lattimore, Bisson and Wittfogel to visit Yan'an, headquarters of the Communists. Wittfogel dropped out of the expedition and the Jaffes replaced him, leaving on May 17, 1937. The Jaffe party arrived in Yan'an in mid-June in a 1924 Chevrolet with a Scandinavian driver. There they met Agnes Smedley and Peggy Snow, and talked with the Communist party leaders Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai. Huang Hua, who interpreted for them, was later the Chinese Foreign Minister. Jaffe"
"privately dissatisfied with Mao's strategy of constant evasion by the end of the Long March, but continued to support Mao publicly. The American journalist Edgar Snow met Lin Biao in the Communist base of Shaanxi in 1936, and wrote about Lin in his book, ""Red Star Over China"". Snow's account focused more on the role of Peng than Lin, evidently having had long conversations with, and devoting two whole chapters to, Peng (more than any individual apart from Mao). But he says of Lin: Lin Biao did not present the bluff, lusty face of Peng Dehuai. He was ten years"
"in China, whom she compared favorably to the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek, she was never a member of the Chinese or American Communist Party. While living in Beijing, the Snows befriended leftist leaders of the 1935 December 9th Movement, who arranged for first Edgar, then Helen to visit the communist wartime capital, Yan'an, in 1937, where she interviewed Chinese Communist leaders, including Mao Zedong. The Snows also conceptualized the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, known as the Gung-Ho movement, which provided jobs and stability. In 1940, Snow returned to the United States, where she and Edgar divorced. She continued to support the"
"to a fully realized communist society. The journalist Edgar Snow and his wife used the 19th century Unequal treaties' extraterritorial status of foreigners in China to be exempt from Chinese law in order to assist student protest movements; disseminating anti-government materials to the Chinese. They acknowledged that they would have been executed were they not exempted. He also admitted that he modified his reports in accordance with the wishes of the communists, to portray them as democratic socialist reformers. US Ambassador to China Clarence Gauss recommended the United States ""pull up the plug and let the whole Chinese Government go"
"addition to writing a book on Japanese aggression in China, ""Far Eastern Front"", he also edited a collection of modern Chinese short stories (translated into English), ""Living China"". They borrowed works on current affairs from the Yenching library and read the principal texts of Marxism. The couple became acquainted with student leaders of the anti-Japanese December 9th Movement. Through their contacts with the underground communist network, Snow was invited to visit Mao Zedong's headquarters. In June 1936, Snow left Beiping with a letter of introduction from Soong Ching-ling (who was a politically important supporter of the Communists) and arrived at"
"of 1938, he joined the China Defense League, which had been established by Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen's widow, for the purpose of publicizing and enlisting international support for the Chinese cause. In 1941, he faked news about his own death as a decoy for the Japanese who were trying to arrest him. The misinformation even found its way into a short item printed in the ""New York Times"". After being assigned to review one of the books of Edgar Snow, Epstein and Snow came to know each other personally and Snow showed him his classic work ""Red Star Over China"""
"will linger long after the historical details slip from readers' memories."" The book was also received positively by other authors and historians in the field. In 2010, ""Southeast Review of Asian Studies"" stated that """"Unbound"" is a must-read for any student of modern Chinese history and ranks with Edgar Snow's ""Red Star Over China"" (1939) as one of the classic narratives of the early days of the Chinese Communist Party."" Helen Praeger Young, author of the 2001 book ""Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March"", stated """"Unbound"" will appeal to every reader who likes history that is exciting,"
"demonstrates that Snow submitted the transcripts of his interviews to be edited and approved by Party officials and critics charge that changes in the American edition were made in response to the Communist Party of the United States. The account of the Long March has come under particular criticism, only to have others reassert its basic validity. In his 1966 biography of Mao, the American Sinologist Stuart R. Schram (1924–2012) asserted that ""Red Star Over China"" was ""irreplaceable"" in learning about Mao's early years. He went on to note that despite ""many errors of detail"", it remains ""by far the"
"China and campaigned to improve social, political and economic conditions. Gerlach was concerned about the practice of binding the feet of women and children in China, which she called inhumane and a perversion of beauty. According to Helen Foster Snow, a journalist in China in the 1930s and wife of Edgar Snow, Gerlach worked at the YWCA headquarters in Shanghai for most of the 1930s. She became involved with the Communist Party and the ""national salvation"" groups led by students opposed to Chiang Kai-shek's right-wing policies and efforts to appease Japan. War broke out between China and Japan in 1937."
"them. Nobody can be immunized against the germs of history. By 1944, Snow was wavering on the question of whether Mao and the Chinese Communists were actually ""agrarian democrats,"" rather than dedicated communists bent on totalitarian rule. His 1944 book, ""People On Our Side"", emphasized their role in the fight against fascism. In a speech, he described Mao and the Communist Chinese as a progressive force who desired a democratic, free China. Writing for ""The Nation"", Snow stated that the Chinese Communists ""happen to have renounced, years ago now, any intention of establishing communism [in China] in the near future."""
"his practice and, with the help of the earlier established Communist contacts, was smuggled across Kuomintang lines to provide medical service to Mao Zedong's Communist troops. In the summer of 1936, Ma travelled to the Communist headquarters at Bao'an (present-day Zhidan), temporary capital of the Communist-controlled Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. He was accompanied by the pioneering American journalist Edgar Snow. At Hatem's request, he was not explicitly mentioned in the first edition of Snow's famous book, ""Red Star Over China"". He is there anonymously as a western-trained doctor who had examined Mao and determined he was not dying of some mysterious"
"contribution was the interviews that he had conducted with the top leaders of the party. When Snow wrote, there were no reliable reports reaching the West about what was going on in the Communist-controlled areas. Other writers, such as Agnes Smedley, had written in some detail about the Chinese Communists before the Long March, but none of these writers had ever visited them or even conducted first-hand interviews with the new leadership which had emerged during the Long March. Snow was taken through the military quarantine lines to the Communist headquarters at Bao'an, where he spent four months (until October"
"before the Long March, but none of these writers had ever visited them or even conducted first hand interviews with them. Snow's status as an international journalist not previously identified with the communist movement gave his reports the stamp of authenticity. The glowing pictures of life in the communist areas contrasted with the gloom and corruption of the Kuomintang government. Many Chinese learned about Mao and the communist movement from the almost immediate translations of Mao's autobiography, and readers in North America and Europe, especially those with liberal views, were heartened to learn of a movement which they interpreted as"
"In 1963, the British Communist Party, which held the copyright to ""Ten Days that Shook the World"" in the United Kingdom, offered Taylor the opportunity to write the introduction to a new edition. The introduction Taylor wrote was fairly sympathetic towards the Bolsheviks. However, it also pointed out certain contradictions between Reed's book and the official historiography in the Soviet Union—for instance, that Leon Trotsky played a very prominent, heroic role in ""Ten Days That Shook The World"" while in 1963 Trotsky was almost a non-person in Soviet historiography, mentioned only in terms of abuse. The British Communist Party rejected"
"effectively made Snow world-famous. The book quickly became a ""standard"" introduction to the early Communist movement in China. After the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, the Snows became founding members of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Association (Indusco). The goal of Indusco was to establish workers' cooperatives in areas not controlled by the Japanese, through which Chinese workers would be provided with steady employment, education, consumer and industrial goods, and the opportunity to manage their own farms and factories. Snow's work in Indusco mainly involved his chairmanship of the Membership and Propaganda Committee, which managed public and financial support. Indusco"
"their then-capital Bao'an (Pao An). They moved to the famous Yan'an only after he left. Snow uses his extensive interviews with Mao and the other top leaders to present vivid descriptions of the Long March, as well as biographical accounts of leaders on both sides of the conflicts, including Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao, He Long, and Mao Zedong's own account of his life. When Snow wrote, there were no reliable reports reaching the West about what was going on in the Communist-controlled areas. Other writers, such as Agnes Smedley, had written in some detail about the Chinese Communists"
"by local supporters. Yan himself admitted that his forces had fought poorly during the campaign. After the Communists' retreat from Shanxi, Nationalist forces remained in Shanxi to deter further guerrilla activity. In 1936 Xu met the American journalist Edgar Snow, who visited Yan'an to interview notable Communist commanders. In his book, ""Red Star Over China"", Snow wrote that, among the Communists in Yan'an, none were more famous or mysterious than Xu Haidong. Mao Tsetung once said, ""among the Chinese revolutionaries, no one have shed more blood than Xu Haidong's family"", during KMT's Communist Suppression Campaign, 66 of Xu's family members"
"in this kind of shelter in modern times. In ancient times, this region was an important center of the Silk Road. Goods moving by caravan to the west included gold, rubies, jade, textiles, coral, ivory, and art works. In the opposite direction moved bronze weapons, furs, ceramics, and cinnamon bark. During the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, 830,000 people were killed as a result of collapsing loess caves. The ""yaodong""s that are best known to the world are perhaps those in Yan'an where the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong headquartered in 1930s. When Edgar Snow, the author of ""Red Star Over"