Source: China – South China Morning PostThe first Chinese edition of Red Star Over China, an influential book that gave people in the West an understanding of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party, is on display for the first time in Shanghai as China marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The 1937 book was written by American journalist Edgar Snow, the first Westerner to meet Mao and other early party leaders.
In 1936, Snow visited Yanan, the party’s headquarters following the Long March, which had concluded the previous…Read More