Chapter 1: Exploring Red China?
It tells the author’s curiosity about the red world and begins his adventure in the Soviet Red Zone to explore the Soviet Union, the Red Army, and the Soviet Union The secret of the Communist Party. It also tells the reasons and process of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng reaching an agreement with the Communist Party to engage in Japan.
Chapter 2: The Road to the Red Capital?
Tells about the experience of being chased by white bandits on the way into the Red Zone, and tells the story of the Kuomintang’s use of the “military group” as an organization Policies of local domination and repression. It introduces the life experiences of Zhou Enlai and He Long and their unique personal charm. It introduces the stories of many young Red Army soldiers who joined the Red Army and loved the Red Army because of their fate of being exploited and oppressed.
Chapter 3: In Security?
It tells the author’s initial impression of Communist Party leader Mao Zedong: healthy, simple and innocent, with a sense of humor, shrewdness, and energy. He is a gifted military and political strategist. It was mentioned that the basic policy of the Communist Party is to oppose imperialism and feudalism. Various courses conducted by the Red Army University and publicity work carried out by the Red Army Drama Club.
Chapter 4: The Origin of a Communist Party Member?
This chapter tells the life experience, ideological changes and growth of the Communist Party leader Mao Zedong into the leader of the Red Army human process.
Chapter 5: The Long March?
It tells the difficult process of the Red Army’s Long March. It focuses on describing the Fifth Great Encirclement and Suppression, as well as the difficult and heroic deeds during the Long March such as forcibly crossing the Dadu River and crossing the prairie.
Chapter 6: Red Star in the Northwest?
It tells the story of Liu Zhidan’s process of creating the Northwest Soviet Area and the suffering caused by the great famine and exorbitant taxes in the Northwest to the people. Soviet social, political, economic, cultural, and monetary policies.
Chapter 7: On the way to the front?
It tells about the support of ordinary farmers for the Red Army, the prosperity of industry in the Soviet area and the optimistic and lively socialist industrial spirit of the workers in the Soviet area. .
Chapter 8: With the Red Army?
It tells the story of the author going deep into the real Red Army and understanding their young, energetic, strict training, strict discipline, excellent equipment, political Their high level of consciousness makes them a formidable army. It also tells about the tragic childhood experience that prompted Commander Peng Dehuai to embark on the road of revolution, as well as his unique personal charm. The reasons and strategies for the Red Army's use of guerrilla tactics. The healthy and rich life of the Red Army soldiers.
Chapter 9: Together with the Red Army (continued)?
The life course of Communist Party military leader Xu Haidong and the killings brought to the common people by China's brutal class war and suffering. Describes the Communist Party's strategy of uniting the Hui people to resist the oppressors.
Chapter 10: War and Peace?
It tells about the patience, diligence, intelligence, and hard study of the young people in Red China, who represent the hope of China, and about the achievements of the Communist Party of China. The efforts made to establish a united front and the extremely outstanding leadership and personal charisma of revolutionary leader Zhu De.
Chapter 11: Back to Security?
It tells about the colorful life of the Red Army in the security area under enemy blockade. It tells about Russia's influence on Red China and the mistakes made by German consultant Reed when commanding operations and their reasons.
Chapter 12: Another White World?
Describes in detail the specific process and results of the "Xi'an Incident", as well as its positive impact on the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front. It also analyzes the complex social background, challenges faced by China's social revolutionary movement and the reasons for its ultimate victory.
Extended information:
"Red Star Over China" (Red Star Over China), also known as "The Journey to the West", is an immortal masterpiece by the famous American journalist Edgar Snow. A beautifully written and highly documentary reportage work. The author truly records what he saw and heard during on-the-spot interviews in the revolutionary base area in northwest China (the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region with Yan'an as the center) from June to October 1936, and truly reports to the world the history of the Communist Party of China and the The situation of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and many Red Army leaders and Red Army generals. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De are the most representative characters in Snow's works.
Edgar Snow, the author of "Red Star Shines on China" (formerly known as "The Journey to the West"), was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA in 1905. He was the youngest of three children in his family. His father opened a small printing shop and the family lived a well-off life. His father wanted him to start his career in the printing industry. But he took a completely different path from his father and became a world-famous journalist. Edgar Snow came to China in 1928 and worked as a reporter and correspondent for several European and American newspapers in China. From April 1933 to June 1935, Snow also served as a lecturer in the Journalism Department of Yanjing University in Peking. In June 1936, Snow visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and wrote a large number of correspondence reports, becoming the first Western reporter to cover the Red Zone.
The author conducted on-the-spot inspections of the revolutionary base areas in northwest China from June to October 1936, and completed the writing of "A Journey to the West" based on the first-hand materials obtained during the inspection. As a Westerner, Snow A journalist who made an objective evaluation of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese revolution and reported it fairly to the world.
Snow had many long conversations with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and others, and collected first-hand information on the 25,000-mile Long March. In addition, he also conducted on-the-spot investigations, went deep into the Red Army soldiers and ordinary people, conducted oral and handwriting interviews, and made extensive and in-depth investigations into the lives of soldiers and civilians in the Soviet area, local political reforms, and people's customs and habits. During four months of interviews, he filled 14 notebooks densely. At the end of October of that year, Snow returned to Peiping from northern Shaanxi with his interview materials, films and photos. After several months of immersed in writing, the English title was "Red Star Over China", and the Chinese translation was "Red Star Over China" or "The Journey to the West" or The reportage "Red Star Shines on China" was finally born.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia Red Star Shines on China