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C. W. Hayford: Red Star Over Edgar Snow

[Charles W. Hayford is Visiting Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University.]

1 S. Bernard Thomas, Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

2 . http://www.umkc.edu/University_Archives/INVTRY/EPS/EPS-INTRO.HTM

3Red Star Over China (Random House 1938): 106-107.

4 Anne-Marie Brady, Makingthe Foreign Serve China: Managing foreigners in the People’s Republic (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003): 46-48; Michael Hunt, The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 1996): 236-237. David Apter and Tony Saich argue that Mao’s heroic story of Yan’an was “so powerful that it changed the way people acted, thought of themselves Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic, and responded to others, at least for a time.” David Apter Tony Saich, (Harvard University Press, 1994): 9, 100-105.

5 Hans J. Van de Ven, War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945 (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003): 2; Jonathan Mirsky, Getting the Story in China: American Reporters since 1972 (The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy 1999): 6, both citing Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes K. M. Anderson, The Soviet World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); 336-341; Part Three, “Red Star Over China, and Elsewhere,” Thomas, Season of High Adventure, 151-189.

6 Charles W. Hayford, “Snow, White & Seven The China Revolution Classics,” Asia Media (December 1 2006).

7 Jonathan Mirsky, “Message from Mao,” New York Review (February 16 1985): 17.

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