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2 unusual facts about Red Star Over China


Red Star Over China

According to Jung Chang and Jon Halliday in their book Mao: The Unknown Story, Snow probably believed what he was told to be true, and much of it is still of basic significance, especially the "Autobiography of Mao."

Zhidan County

Journalist Edgar Snow visited the communist leaders in Bao'an in the summer and fall of 1936, and named the third part of his book Red Star Over China after this town.


Luding Bridge

The very first description of the battle, given by Edgar Snow in Red Star Over China in 1937, cited three deaths.


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