Red Star over China

Edgar Snow

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Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

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

Footnotes

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Edgar Snow

Red Star over China

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