The remarkable thing about Red Star Over China was that it not only gave the first connected history of Mao and his colleagues and where they had come from, but it also gave a prospect of the future...

This book has stood the test of time on both these counts--as a historical record and as an indication of a trend.

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.

This edition includes extensive notes on military and political developments in China,further interviews with Mao Tse-tung,a chronology coering 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.

Introduction by Dr. John K. Fairbank

Preface to the Revised Edition

Chronology: 125 Years of Chinese Revolution

A Note on Chinese Pronunciation

      PART ONE: IN SEARCH OF RED CHINA

1. Some Unanswered Questions

2. Slow Train to "Western Peace"

3. Some Han Bronzes

4. Through Red Gates

   PART TWO: THE ROAD TO THE RED CAPITAL

1. Chased by White Bandits

2. The Insurrectionist

3. Something About Ho Lung

4. Red Companions

      PART THREE: IN "DEFENDED PEACE"

1. Soviet Strong Man

2. Basic Communist Policies

3. On War with Japan

4. $2,000,000 in Heads

5. Red Theater

     PART FOUR: GENESIS OF A COMMUNIST

1. Childhood

2. Days in Changsha

3. Prelude to Revolution

4. The Nationalist Period

5. The Soviet Movement

6. Growth of the Red Army

         PART FIVE: THE LONG MARCH

1. The Fifth Campaign

2. A Nation Emigrates

3. The Heroes of Tatu

4. Across the Great Grasslands

     PART SIX: RED STAR IN THE NORTHWEST

1. The Shensi Soviets: Beginnings

2. Death and Taxes

3. Soviet Society

4. Anatomy of Money

5. Life Begins at Fifty!

     PART SEVEN: EN ROUTE TO THE FRONT

1. Conversation with Red Peasants

2. Soviet Industries

3. "They Sing Too Much"

       PART EIGHT: WITH THE RED ARMY

1. The "Real" Red Army

2. Impression of P'eng Teh-huai

3. Why Is a Red?

4. Tactics of Partisan Warfare

5. Life of the Red Warrior

6. Session in Politics

  PART NINE: WITH THE RED ARMY (Continued)

1. Hsu Hai-tung, the Red Potter

2. Class War in China

3. Four Great Horses

4. Moslem and Marxist

         PART TEN: WAR AND PEACE

1. More About Horses

2. "Little Red Devils"

3. United Front in Action

4. Concerning Chu Teh

        PART ELEVEN: BACK TO PAO AN

1. Casuals of the Road

2. Life in Pao An

3. The Russian Influence

4. Chinese Communism and the Comintern

5. That Foreign Brain Trust

6. Farewell to Red China

      PART TWELVE: WHITE WORLD AGAIN

1. A Preface to Mutiny

2. The Generalissimo Is Arrested

3. Chiang, Chang~ and the Reds

4. "Point Counter Point"

5. Auld Lang Syne?

6. Red Horizons

Epilogue, 1944

Notes to the Revised Edition

               APPENDICES

Abbreviations

Further Interviews with Mao Tse-tung

Biographical Notes

Leadership in the Chinese Communist Party

Bibliography

Index