Red Star Over China
Edgar snow, an American writer, created documentary works.
This entry is a polysemous word with six senses.
Red Star over China, once translated into Red Star over China, is an immortal masterpiece of edgar snow, a famous American journalist, and also a beautifully written documentary literary work. 1June, 936 to1June, the author truly recorded what he saw and heard in the field interview in the northwest revolutionary base area of China (Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region with Yan 'an as the center), and truly reported to the world the situation of the China * * Production Party, the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, their leaders and generals, and combed the context of the Long March according to the interview. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai are the most representative figures in the author's works. [ 1]
In April 2020, it was listed in the Reading Guidance Catalogue for Primary and Secondary School Students (2020 Edition) of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education. [2]
title of a book
Red Star Over China
Another name
The red star shines on China [3]
author
Edgar snow [3]
kind
Documentary writing
original work
Red Star Over China
quick
navigate by water/air
Author's brief introduction, writing experience, publishing and publishing works, and influencing netizens' evaluation.
brief Introduction of the content
"Red Star Shines on China" is the first interview record of western journalists on China's * * * Production Party and Red Army, and it is also a landmark work in the history of journalism and reportage. This book not only records a lot of first-hand information about revolutionary leaders such as the Chinese Red Army and Soviet Area, as well as Mao Zedong, but also deeply analyzes and discusses the reasons for the emergence and development of the "Red China" and makes an objective evaluation of the China * * * Production Party and the China Revolution. Because of its authoritative record of history and accurate prediction of historical trends, this book has become a world-famous classic and has been translated into nearly 20 languages. [6]
Catalogue of works
Book *** 12, the main contents include:
1. Introduction to the Long March of the Red Army;
2. Interview with the main leaders of the China * * * Production Party and the Red Army;
3. China produces the Party's anti-Japanese policy and the Red Army's military strategy;
4. The author's whole interview experience and feelings.
The following catalogue is from Beijing Sanlian Bookstore (1979):
Preface to China's retranslation (Hu Yuzhi)
Preface to 1938 Chinese Author (Si Nuo)
The first article explores the red China.
Red Star Shines on China 1979 Joint Publishing Edition
I. Some unanswered questions
2. The local train to Xi 'an
Three. Bronzes of Han dynasty
Step 4 go through the red door
The second way to Hongdu
1. chased by white robbers
Two. The rebels
Three. He Long 23 incident
Four. Companion of the red army
The third article is about security.
First, the authorities in the Soviet Union
Two. * * * Basic policies of producers
Three. On War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression
Four. Award 2 million yuan.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Red Army Drama Club
The fourth article is the origin of a * * * party member.
I. Childhood
2. Days in Changsha
Three. The prelude to the revolution
Four. During the national revolution
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Soviet movement
The intransitive verb the growth of the Red Army
The fifth long March
First, the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign
Two. National migration
3. Dadu River Heroes
Step 4 be overgrown with weeds
Red star is in the northwest.
1. Shaanxi Soviet area: the pioneering period
Two. Death and taxes
Three. Soviet society
Four. Currency analysis
Five. Life begins at the age of fifty!
On the way to the front
I. Talking with Red Farmers
Two. Soviet area industry
3. "They sing too much"
Article 8 Being with the Red Army
A. The "real" Red Army
Two. Impression of Peng
3. Why did you become a Red Army?
Four. guerrilla tactics
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Life of Red Army Soldiers
Politics course of intransitive verbs
Article 9 Being with the Red Army (continued)
I. Xu Haidong, a Red Kiln Worker
Two. Class War in China
Three. Four big horses
Four. Muslims and Marxists
Article 10 War and Peace
First, talk about horses again
2. Hong Haier
Three. United front in practice
Four. About Zhu De.
The eleventh time is safe
I. Encounter on the road
Two. The life of security guards
Three. Russian influence
Four. China's * * * Production Movement and * * * Production International
5. That foreign think tank
6. Farewell, Red China.
The twelfth article is the white world again
A prelude to the mutiny
The commander-in-chief was arrested.
3. Jiang, Zhang and * * * Production Party
4. "tit for tat"
5. Friendship lasts forever?
6. Red sky
Appendix 1: Translation Suffixes in the New Edition of Red Star over China
Attachment 2: Si Nuo's Photographic Interview Activities in Northwest Soviet Area
Attachment 3: Living Room in Si Nuo and the December 9th Student Movement.
Brief introduction of the author
Edgar snow (1905— 1972) is a famous American journalist. He came to China on 1928. He is a reporter and correspondent of European and American newspapers in China, and a lecturer of yenching university journalism department. 1June, 936, he went to the Soviet area in northern Shaanxi alone, and told the world the real situation of the Chinese Red Army and the Soviet area for the first time through on-the-spot investigation and interviews with revolutionary leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and thus created a documentary literary classic "Red Star Shines on China", becoming the first person to report on the Chinese Red Army in the world. After 1949, Si Nuo visited China three times and was cordially received by Mao Zedong. His work Red Star over China has become a landmark work in the history of news and reportage. [6]
Red Star Over China
Writing experience
From June of 1936 to June of 10, the author made an on-the-spot investigation to the revolutionary base areas in northwest China, and completed the writing of "Red Star Shines on China" based on the first-hand materials obtained from the investigation. As a western journalist, Si Nuo made an objective evaluation of the revolutions in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China and made a fair report to the whole world.
Si Nuo had many long talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and collected the first-hand information of 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, and made extensive and in-depth investigations on the military and civilian life, local political reform, people's customs and habits, and industrial and agricultural production in the base areas. During the four-month interview, he wrote 14 notebooks. At the end of 10, Si Nuo returned to Beiping from northern Shaanxi with his interview materials, films and photos. After several months of writing, documentary literature named Red Star Shines in China in English and Red Star Shines in China or China in Chinese was finally born.
Publication and distribution
Because of the passion aroused by Si Nuo's adventure in the red area of northwest China and his love for the people of China, he spent almost all his energy in the later half of his life in continuing to explore and report on the China issue. The Red Star Shines on China has been translated into more than 20 languages and spread almost all over the world. The book has been reprinted continuously, affecting millions of readers and generations of young people, and has become a well-known literary work.
New york Grove Publishing House English Edition
1937 10, Victor Goranz of London, England, published Si Nuo's first English version of Red Star over China. Since then, this book has been translated and published in nearly 20 languages, and has spread almost all over the world for decades, becoming a famous bestseller.
Red Star Shines on China 1938 Edition
1938, 10 In February, the first full Chinese translation of Red Star over China, which was planned by Hu Yuzhi and translated by 12 people including Lin Tianqiu and Yimei, was published in the name of Fu She. Considering its distribution in enemy-occupied areas and Kuomintang government areas, its translation was renamed Red Star over China. This book was published in four editions in just ten months, which caused a sensation in overseas Chinese gathering places at home and abroad. In Hong Kong and overseas Chinese gathering places, there are countless reprints and reprints of this book. The Kuomintang government ordered Si Nuo's works to be banned more than once, and more than a dozen such works were banned successively.
1938 In July, the revised edition of Red Star over China was published in the United States. Printed by Langdon Press, new york, USA, version 1938, with the cover of hardcover varnished cloth, the height by width of the book is 24 times that of 16 cm. There is a map of China on the ring lining, which shows the route of the Red Army's Long March in detail. Seal No.3 and the ring are also printed with a map-the map of northwest China, which is actually a map of the area controlled by 1938. There are many oval seals on the ring of this book. The original text is the Jesuit Library in Nanjing, California. The American version was revised and supplemented by Si Nuo, and the text is different from the Fu She version, adding a chapter 13: Shadow at sunrise.
Red Star Shines on China-Humanities and Social Edition
After 1949, Si Nuo's books continued to shine all over the world, but they were left out in China. "Red Star over China" was printed in February by Sanlian Bookstore. 1960. As an internal reading, it is limited to internal distribution, which was specially approved for Si Nuo's first visit to China after the founding of New China. During the Cultural Revolution, Red Star over China was also doomed, and it was sealed in the stacks of libraries and reference rooms, and it was forbidden to borrow.
197965438+In February, Beijing Sanlian Bookstore published the Chinese version of Red Star over China translated by Leshan Dong according to Victor Gollancz Ltd London's 1937 version, and Hu Yuzhi prefaced the retranslated version, which also included Si Nuo's 1938 version.
From the perspective of book publishing, it is the translator Leshan Dong who really gave Si Nuo the title of Red Star over China. As a professional translator, Leshan Dong has his own considerations when choosing the English version of Red Star over China. After the first edition of Red Star over China (1937), edgar snow revised it repeatedly, including the British Gollancz edition (Victor Gollancz 1937), the first edition of Random House 1938) and the first revised edition of Random House. The second revised edition of American Random House (Random House 1944), Grove Press 1968, British Gorlancz 1968, Penguin Book 65438+. Si Nuo revised, added and deleted this classic book with the change of the current situation and his understanding of the China * * * production party. Compared with the previous versions, each version is more than just an adjustment of words and expressions. After careful consideration and argumentation, the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, Sanlian Bookstore and translator Leshan Dong decided to translate according to the first edition 1937. [8]
On July 20 16, People's Literature Publishing House published a new edition of Red Star over China in Chinese. This edition adopts Mr. Leshan Dong's classic translation, and also inserts dozens of historical photos of Zhang Zhengui selected from the third edition of Red Star over China, which are hard to find now. At the end of the book, there are three articles written by translator Leshan Dong, such as Si Nuo's Living Room and December 9 Student Movement.
2065438+February 2008, the Chinese version of the book has been born for 80 years. The new version of Red Star Shines on China has sold 3 million copies. The new edition "Red Star Shines on China" is the first book published by the Humanities Society with a code of over 100 million a year, and it is also the first book in the domestic publishing industry in 20 17. As of February 438+08, 1965, the new edition "Red Star Shines on China" has been printed 3 1 time, with a delivery code of 1 more than 100 million yuan in one year, and a book has earned more than 20 million yuan for the humanities society. [ 1]
Red Star Shines on the New Translation Authorized by China-Si Nuo Foundation.
2065438+August 2008, Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House published Red Star over China (also known as Red Star over China) authorized by Si Nuo Foundation. This book is translated according to the final version of Red Star Shines on China, and it is a Chinese translation officially certified by the Si Nuo Foundation. [9]
The influence of the work
The Red Star Shines on China not only achieved great success in political sense, but also became a model of similar works in the artistic techniques of reportage creation. The angles of characterization, environmental description and narration are almost superb. After the Chinese version of Red Star Shines on China was published, it also produced great repercussions in China. Thousands of young people in China took to the revolutionary road because they read The Red Star Shines on China.
1937 10 "Red Star Shines on China" was first published in Britain, and it became a sensation in the world as soon as it came out. In the first few weeks of its publication in London, it was reprinted seven times in a row and sold more than 65438+ 10,000 copies. World public opinion generally believes that this is a masterpiece, marking a new era of western understanding of China. According to the survey of American historian Harold isaacs, as the main source of Americans' impression of China, The Red Star Shines on China is second only to Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. "The Good Earth" made Americans truly understand the common people in China for the first time, and "Red Star Shines on China" made westerners understand the real life of producers in China. In a sense, a generation of Americans learned about China producers from Si Nuo.
Red Star Shines on China English Edition
In The Red Star Shines on China, Si Nuo discusses the background of the China Revolution and the reasons for its development. He judged that, due to the propaganda and concrete actions of China's * * * production party, the poor and the oppressed have new ideas and new beliefs about the country, society and individuals that must be put into action. It is with this ideological arm that a group of young people have been able to carry out a mass struggle against Kuomintang rule for ten years. He admired the Long March, asserted that it was actually a strategic retreat, and praised it as a heroic epic and an unparalleled expedition in modern history. Si Nuo declared to the world with conclusive facts that the Chinese Production Party and its revolutionary cause are like a shining red star, shining not only in the northwest of China, but also in China and the whole world.
Another charm of The Red Star Shines on China is that it depicts the indomitable and fearless great struggle of China producers and Red Army soldiers, and the great and ordinary mental outlook of their leaders. He interviewed China * * * Party leaders and Red Army generals face to face, and forged a shallow or deep friendship. The most important of these is undoubtedly Mao Zedong. Si Nuo accurately grasped the spiritual bond between Mao Zedong and the people of China, who are mainly farmers. No one knows them better than Mao Zedong, and is better at synthesizing, expressing and understanding their wishes. This will profoundly restrict the process of China's modernization in the coming decades, including success and twists and turns.
In this way, Si Nuo's understanding of China has reached an unprecedented height. He discovered a "living China", made a correct prediction of the important role of ordinary China people, especially farmers, in historical creation, discovered the power hidden among hundreds of millions of working people, and asserted that the future of China was in their hands.
In April 2020, it was listed in the Reading Guidance Catalogue for Primary and Secondary School Students (2020 Edition) of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education. [2] "Red Star Shines on China # A Good Book #0 1:40.
Red Star Over China
Edgar snow, an American writer, created documentary works.
This entry is a polysemous word with six senses.
Red Star over China, once translated into Red Star over China, is an immortal masterpiece of edgar snow, a famous American journalist, and also a beautifully written documentary literary work. 1June, 936 to1June, the author truly recorded what he saw and heard in the field interview in the northwest revolutionary base area of China (Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region with Yan 'an as the center), and truly reported to the world the situation of the China * * Production Party, the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, their leaders and generals, and combed the context of the Long March according to the interview. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai are the most representative figures in the author's works. [ 1]
In April 2020, it was listed in the Reading Guidance Catalogue for Primary and Secondary School Students (2020 Edition) of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education. [2]
title of a book
Red Star Over China
Another name
The red star shines on China [3]
author
Edgar snow [3]
kind
Documentary writing
original work
Red Star Over China
quick
navigate by water/air
Author's brief introduction, writing experience, publishing and publishing works, and influencing netizens' evaluation.
brief Introduction of the content
"Red Star Shines on China" is the first interview record of western journalists on China's * * * Production Party and Red Army, and it is also a landmark work in the history of journalism and reportage. This book not only records a lot of first-hand information about revolutionary leaders such as the Chinese Red Army and Soviet Area, as well as Mao Zedong, but also deeply analyzes and discusses the reasons for the emergence and development of the "Red China" and makes an objective evaluation of the China * * * Production Party and the China Revolution. Because of its authoritative record of history and accurate prediction of historical trends, this book has become a world-famous classic and has been translated into nearly 20 languages. [6]
Catalogue of works
Book *** 12, the main contents include:
1. Introduction to the Long March of the Red Army;
2. Interview with the main leaders of the China * * * Production Party and the Red Army;
3. China produces the Party's anti-Japanese policy and the Red Army's military strategy;
4. The author's whole interview experience and feelings.
The following catalogue is from Beijing Sanlian Bookstore (1979):
Preface to China's retranslation (Hu Yuzhi)
Preface to 1938 Chinese Author (Si Nuo)
The first article explores the red China.
Red Star Shines on China 1979 Joint Publishing Edition
I. Some unanswered questions
2. The local train to Xi 'an
Three. Bronzes of Han dynasty
Step 4 go through the red door
The second way to Hongdu
1. chased by white robbers
Two. The rebels
Three. He Long 23 incident
Four. Companion of the red army
The third article is about security.
First, the authorities in the Soviet Union
Two. * * * Basic policies of producers
Three. On War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression
Four. Award 2 million yuan.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Red Army Drama Club
The fourth article is the origin of a * * * party member.
I. Childhood
2. Days in Changsha
Three. The prelude to the revolution
Four. During the national revolution
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Soviet movement
The intransitive verb the growth of the Red Army
The fifth long March
First, the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign
Two. National migration
3. Dadu River Heroes
Step 4 be overgrown with weeds
Red star is in the northwest.
1. Shaanxi Soviet area: the pioneering period
Two. Death and taxes
Three. Soviet society
Four. Currency analysis
Five. Life begins at the age of fifty!
On the way to the front
I. Talking with Red Farmers
Two. Soviet area industry
3. "They sing too much"
Article 8 Being with the Red Army
A. The "real" Red Army
Two. Impression of Peng
3. Why did you become a Red Army?
Four. guerrilla tactics
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Life of Red Army Soldiers
Politics course of intransitive verbs
Article 9 Being with the Red Army (continued)
I. Xu Haidong, a Red Kiln Worker
Two. Class War in China
Three. Four big horses
Four. Muslims and Marxists
Article 10 War and Peace
First, talk about horses again
2. Hong Haier
Three. United front in practice
Four. About Zhu De.
The eleventh time is safe
I. Encounter on the road
Two. The life of security guards
Three. Russian influence
Four. China's * * * Production Movement and * * * Production International
5. That foreign think tank
6. Farewell, Red China.
The twelfth article is the white world again
A prelude to the mutiny
The commander-in-chief was arrested.
3. Jiang, Zhang and * * * Production Party
4. "tit for tat"
5. Friendship lasts forever?
6. Red sky
Appendix 1: Translation Suffixes in the New Edition of Red Star over China
Attachment 2: Si Nuo's Photographic Interview Activities in Northwest Soviet Area
Attachment 3: Living Room in Si Nuo and the December 9th Student Movement.
Brief introduction of the author
Edgar snow (1905— 1972) is a famous American journalist. He came to China on 1928. He is a reporter and correspondent of European and American newspapers in China, and a lecturer of yenching university journalism department. 1June, 936, he went to the Soviet area in northern Shaanxi alone, and told the world the real situation of the Chinese Red Army and the Soviet area for the first time through on-the-spot investigation and interviews with revolutionary leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and thus created a documentary literary classic "Red Star Shines on China", becoming the first person to report on the Chinese Red Army in the world. After 1949, Si Nuo visited China three times and was cordially received by Mao Zedong. His work Red Star over China has become a landmark work in the history of news and reportage. [6]
Red Star Over China
Writing experience
From June of 1936 to June of 10, the author made an on-the-spot investigation to the revolutionary base areas in northwest China, and completed the writing of "Red Star Shines on China" based on the first-hand materials obtained from the investigation. As a western journalist, Si Nuo made an objective evaluation of the revolutions in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China and made a fair report to the whole world.
Si Nuo had many long talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and collected the first-hand information of 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, and made extensive and in-depth investigations on the military and civilian life, local political reform, people's customs and habits, and industrial and agricultural production in the base areas. During the four-month interview, he wrote 14 notebooks. At the end of 10, Si Nuo returned to Beiping from northern Shaanxi with his interview materials, films and photos. After several months of writing, documentary literature named Red Star Shines in China in English and Red Star Shines in China or China in Chinese was finally born.
Publication and distribution
Because of the passion aroused by Si Nuo's adventure in the red area of northwest China and his love for the people of China, he spent almost all his energy in the later half of his life in continuing to explore and report on the China issue. The Red Star Shines on China has been translated into more than 20 languages and spread almost all over the world. The book has been reprinted continuously, affecting millions of readers and generations of young people, and has become a well-known literary work.
New york Grove Publishing House English Edition
1937 10, Victor Goranz of London, England, published Si Nuo's first English version of Red Star over China. Since then, this book has been translated and published in nearly 20 languages, and has spread almost all over the world for decades, becoming a famous bestseller.
Red Star Shines on China 1938 Edition
1938, 10 In February, the first full Chinese translation of Red Star over China, which was planned by Hu Yuzhi and translated by 12 people including Lin Tianqiu and Yimei, was published in the name of Fu She. Considering its distribution in enemy-occupied areas and Kuomintang government areas, its translation was renamed Red Star over China. This book was published in four editions in just ten months, which caused a sensation in overseas Chinese gathering places at home and abroad. In Hong Kong and overseas Chinese gathering places, there are countless reprints and reprints of this book. The Kuomintang government ordered Si Nuo's works to be banned more than once, and more than a dozen such works were banned successively.
1938 In July, the revised edition of Red Star over China was published in the United States. Printed by Langdon Press, new york, USA, version 1938, with the cover of hardcover varnished cloth, the height by width of the book is 24 times that of 16 cm. There is a map of China on the ring lining, which shows the route of the Red Army's Long March in detail. Seal No.3 and the ring are also printed with a map-the map of northwest China, which is actually a map of the area controlled by 1938. There are many oval seals on the ring of this book. The original text is the Jesuit Library in Nanjing, California. The American version was revised and supplemented by Si Nuo, and the text is different from the Fu She version, adding a chapter 13: Shadow at sunrise.
Red Star Shines on China-Humanities and Social Edition
After 1949, Si Nuo's books continued to shine all over the world, but they were left out in China. "Red Star over China" was printed in February by Sanlian Bookstore. 1960. As an internal reading, it is limited to internal distribution, which was specially approved for Si Nuo's first visit to China after the founding of New China. During the Cultural Revolution, Red Star over China was also doomed, and it was sealed in the stacks of libraries and reference rooms, and it was forbidden to borrow.
197965438+In February, Beijing Sanlian Bookstore published the Chinese version of Red Star over China translated by Leshan Dong according to Victor Gollancz Ltd London's 1937 version, and Hu Yuzhi prefaced the retranslated version, which also included Si Nuo's 1938 version.
From the perspective of book publishing, it is the translator Leshan Dong who really gave Si Nuo the title of Red Star over China. As a professional translator, Leshan Dong has his own considerations when choosing the English version of Red Star over China. After the first edition of Red Star over China (1937), edgar snow revised it repeatedly, including the British Gollancz edition (Victor Gollancz 1937), the first edition of Random House 1938) and the first revised edition of Random House. The second revised edition of American Random House (Random House 1944), Grove Press 1968, British Gorlancz 1968, Penguin Book 65438+. Si Nuo revised, added and deleted this classic book with the change of the current situation and his understanding of the China * * * production party. Compared with the previous versions, each version is more than just an adjustment of words and expressions. After careful consideration and argumentation, the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, Sanlian Bookstore and translator Leshan Dong decided to translate according to the first edition 1937. [8]
On July 20 16, People's Literature Publishing House published a new edition of Red Star over China in Chinese. This edition adopts Mr. Leshan Dong's classic translation, and at the end of the book, dozens of historical photos of Zhang Zhengui selected from the three editions of Red Star over China, which are now hard to find, and three articles written by translator Leshan Dong, such as Si Nuo's Living Room and December 9 Student Movement, are inserted.
2065438+February 2008, the Chinese version of the book has been born for 80 years. The new version of Red Star Shines on China has sold 3 million copies. The new edition "Red Star Shines on China" is the first book published by Humanities Society, which is over 100 million yuan a year, and it is also the best-selling book in the domestic publishing industry on 20 17. As of February 438+08, 1965, the new edition "Red Star Shines on China" has been printed 3 1 time, with a delivery code of 1 more than 100 million yuan in one year, and a book has earned more than 20 million yuan for the humanities society. [ 1]
Red Star Shines on the New Translation Authorized by China-Si Nuo Foundation.
2065438+August 2008, Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House published Red Star over China (also known as Red Star over China) authorized by Si Nuo Foundation. This book is translated according to the final version of Red Star Shines on China, and it is a Chinese translation officially certified by the Si Nuo Foundation. [9]
The influence of the work
The Red Star Shines on China not only achieved great success in political sense, but also became a model of similar works in the artistic techniques of reportage creation. The angles of characterization, environmental description and narration are almost superb. After the Chinese version of Red Star Shines on China was published, it also produced great repercussions in China. Thousands of young people in China took to the revolutionary road because they read The Red Star Shines on China.
1937 10 "Red Star Shines on China" was first published in Britain, and it became a sensation in the world as soon as it came out. In the first few weeks of its publication in London, it was reprinted seven times in a row and sold more than 65438+ 10,000 copies. World public opinion generally believes that this is a masterpiece, marking a new era of western understanding of China. According to the survey of American historian Harold isaacs, as the main source of Americans' impression of China, The Red Star Shines on China is second only to Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. "The Good Earth" made Americans truly understand the common people in China for the first time, and "Red Star Shines on China" made westerners understand the real life of producers in China. In a sense, a generation of Americans learned about China producers from Si Nuo.
Red Star Shines on China English Edition
In The Red Star Shines on China, Si Nuo discusses the background of the China Revolution and the reasons for its development. He judged that, due to the propaganda and concrete actions of China's * * * production party, the poor and the oppressed have new ideas and new beliefs about the country, society and individuals that must be put into action. It is with this ideological arm that a group of young people have been able to carry out a mass struggle against Kuomintang rule for ten years. He admired the Long March, asserted that it was actually a strategic retreat, and praised it as a heroic epic and an unparalleled expedition in modern history. Si Nuo declared to the world with conclusive facts that the Chinese Production Party and its revolutionary cause are like a shining red star, shining not only in the northwest of China, but also in China and the whole world.
Another charm of The Red Star Shines on China is that it depicts the indomitable and fearless great struggle of China producers and Red Army soldiers, and the great and ordinary mental outlook of their leaders. He interviewed China * * * Party leaders and Red Army generals face to face, and forged a shallow or deep friendship. The most important of these is undoubtedly Mao Zedong. Si Nuo accurately grasped the spiritual bond between Mao Zedong and the people of China, who are mainly farmers. No one knows them better than Mao Zedong, and is better at synthesizing, expressing and understanding their wishes. This will profoundly restrict the process of China's modernization in the coming decades, including success and twists and turns.
In this way, Si Nuo's understanding of China has reached an unprecedented height. He discovered a "living China", made a correct prediction of the important role of ordinary China people, especially farmers, in historical creation, discovered the power hidden among hundreds of millions of working people, and asserted that the future of China was in their hands.
In April 2020, it was listed in the Reading Guidance Catalogue for Primary and Secondary School Students (2020 Edition) of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education. [2]