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This year is the 85th anniversary of the documentary "Red Star Shining China" by American journalist and writer Edgar Snow. In the vicissitudes of vicissitudes, the red star who saw and recorded and recorded in the Shaanxi -Gansu -Ningxue District was still shining in China and in the world, and it was even more dazzling.

In June 1936, under the arrangement of Ms. Song Qingling, Snow departed from the home of Hutong 13, Beijing Dongcheng armor factory, on the 13th home of the Beijing Dongcheng armor factory, and took the train to Xi'an to embark on his historic journey. journey.

As a special reporter of the "Daily Pioneer" in the United States, with the mind of a proven matter, and the determination to "take a foreigner's head to take a danger", walk all the way to northern Shaanxi westward and become the first one to become the first Interview with Western reporters in Shaanxi -Gansu -Ningzu District.

"That was in the early June, Beijing put on the green clothes in spring, countless willows and towering pine cypress turned the Forbidden City into a charming state; in many quiet gardens, it is difficult for people to believe in the golden palace. Outside the roof, there is also a hard work, hunger, revolutionary, and China that has been affected by foreign aggression. "In the section of" Slow Car to Xi'an "in" Red Shining China ", Snow wrote.

After interviewing in northern Shaanxi for more than four months, Snow returned to Beijing's home with 16 notes and 24 film accumulated day and night. After several months of buried and writing, the original English book of "Red Star Shining China" was published by Grandz Corporation in London, England in October 1937.

As a honest and integrity Western reporter, Snow introduced the world to the world with his unique feelings and vivid descriptions, as well as the struggle experience and life of the military and civilian military and civilians that were little known at the time. Way.

"Red Star Shining China", this work with only 24 mm thick and more than 300,000 words, has been translated into more than 20 texts, has spread almost all over the world, and has caused a long -lasting extensive impact. In 2016, the "Red Star Shining China" published by the People's Literature Publishing House has soared again, and it has exceeded 13 million copies.

The "Red Star Fever" set off at home and abroad shows the long -lasting red charm of "Red Star Shining China".

"I'm just a recorder"

Snow is an old friend of the Chinese people. He was born in 1905. After graduating from university in 1928, he came to China to serve as a reporter in China as American news institutions until he left China in 1941. After the founding of New China, he returned to China three times. Snow has deep feelings for the Chinese, Chinese people, and the Chinese revolution. Regardless of whether he returned to the United States or moved to Switzerland, he always cared about China in his heart.

Before writing "Red Star Shining China", Snow spent a lot of effort to compile and publish the English version of "Live China -Selection of Hyundai Chinese Short Story" and "Lu Xun Review Biography". China.

One day in February 1933, accompanied by young writer Yao Ke, Snow and Lu Xun met with Lu Xun, which caused his interest in recording the suffering of the Chinese people and yearning for the Chinese New Literature and Art. After the meeting, Snow admired and worshiped Lu Xun even more. He said that Lu Xun was a spiritual giant. "Lu Xun was a key to teach me to understand China."

Lu Xun also had a good opinion of this young American journalist. In a letter to a friend, he said: "S Jun understands that there are several foreigners love China, which is far better than some compatriots." S Jun refers to Snow.

In an interview for more than a hundred days in the Shaanxi -Gansu -Ningzu area, everything and everyone I saw and hearing left a vivid mark in Snow's mind, becoming the freshness of his westward journey. material.

The senior editor of the People's Literature Publishing House believes that "Snow is a writer who is very storytelling. His control of the narrative rhythm, observation and judgment of the character's personality, the sorting and grasp of major historical events, and his himself’s own own own own’s own. The sense of humor has made this book very highly read. "

Snow wrote in "Red Star Shining China" that in 1936, on the way to Ansai, northern Shaanxi, he passed a place called Baijiaping. At this time, Snow, who had just got rid of the bandits, was shocked and thirsty. During the rest, when two children stood beside him, he greeted one of them and said, "Hey, get some cold water for us." But the child ignored him. A few minutes later, he greeted another child, and the result was the same.

Seeing this, Li Kenong, who was his peers, pulled Snow's sleeves and reminded: "You can call him 'little ghosts', or you can call him 'Comrade', but you can't call him 'feed'. Who is here. They are all comrades. These children are young pioneers, they are revolutionaries, so they come here to help. They are not servants. They are future Red Army soldiers. "At this time, cold water was sent.

"Thank you -Comrade!" Snow apologized.

The young pioneer players looked at Snow generously. "It doesn't matter." He said, "You don't have to thank a comrade for such a thing!"

This incident made Snow feel very emotional: "These children are really amazing. I have never seen such a high degree of personal self -esteem among Chinese children. The beginning of an unexpected series, because after I go deep into the Soviet Union, I will find a amazing young man in these cheeks with red little ghosts' -emotional, full of energy, full of spirit, and loyalty. The vitality shows the exercise. "" Although this plot has been brought, we also see Snow's sincerity and sensitivity. Just in a completely strange environment, Snow soon found found The method of eliminating alert integration into the environment and pulling closer to the interviewees, and at the same time, the red China also opened his heart to Snow. Such a frank and harmonious communication finally achieved the classic of "Red Star Shining China". "People's Literature Publishing House Editor Wang Wei said.

In September 1939, Snow returned to northern Shaanxi and came to Yan'an. Mao Zedong invited Snow to attend the party, government and military cadre conference, and introduced to you: "This is the authenticity of the author of our book, Mr. Edgar Snow." "When praising the intersection, he always said sincerely:" You are the real author of this book, you are the master of creating history, and I am just a recorder. "

"Literally, I wrote this book. This is true. But from the most practical significance, these stories were created and written by the Chinese revolutionary young people. These revolutionary youths We live the story described in this book. So if this book is a correct record and explanation, it is because this is their book. "In the preface of the translation of" Red Star Shining China ", Snow wrote this way road.

According to the safety of Snow's research experts, from August 14th to February 1971, Snow came to China for the last visit. He gave all the photos taken in China from 1935 to 1937 to the museum in China. The museum gave him 8,000 yuan to pay, but he insisted on accepting it. Accompanying the personnel to persist again and again, he had to accept it. Later, when he left the Kunming Airport, he handed the next bag before taking off and refunded the money unmoved.

The English translation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has accompanied Snow many times, said: "This old man is a hard bone. It is not easy for him to visit China. Doing so will cause the criticism and slander of foreigners, and suspect the authenticity he reports. He visits all parts of China. "

"Losing the reader is equivalent to losing life"

Snow was born in Missouri in the United States, and it is said that the people there are more believed in "seeing the truth." The safety said: "Snow is a person with a heart, insisting on‘ seeing the truth ’.”

In Snow's opinion, there is no fiction in news documentary. Every character, every sentence, and even every expression must have credible information sources, either the author sees it with his own eyes, hears it in person, or comes from from his own ears. Trustical information supplement. This reflects the professional standards and pursuits of an excellent journalist.

"Snow wrote the spirit of this kind of loess, and also wrote the thrills and wonderfulness of the interview process. The scarcity of historical facts, the magnificence of the pattern, the vividness of the details, the legend of the experience, and the culture of the culture gathered together. The Yellow River chorus in Qu, Shaanxi, Ganshan, has been loaded into the spiritual history of the Chinese nation, inspiring the outstanding children of the generations of the Chinese nation. "Yang Xinlan, a senior editor of the People's Literature Press.

In 1936, Snow interviewed in the Shaanxi -Gansu -Ningzu area. In order to put the truth and the revolutionary experience of the main leaders such as Mao Zedong as soon as possible, and the moving traces of the Red Army Long March, he was publicly public in time. Below, Snow devoted his efforts to intense interviews and reports, and quickly published English newspapers such as the "Millet Review", "Da Mei Evening News" and Peiping's "Democracy" magazine. A close -up report in the Soviet area caused a sensation.

At that time, the Kuomintang was stigmatized for Mao Zedong and other Red Army leaders. Snow showed his own real image to the world with his own hearing.

In Snow's writing, Mao Zedong "is a person with a very deep feelings, and may become a very great figure." Snow's description makes the outside world see an unheard of Mao Zedong, a perseverance, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise, wise The courage, outstanding political wisdom and military talents.

On January 25, 1937, the famous "Life" magazine in the United States published a set of photos taken by Snow with six layouts, titled "The first appearance of the Communist Party members of China". One of the photos and the instructions for it were particularly noticeable: "Mao is his name, his head value is 250,000 US dollars." This was the bounty of Mao Zedong at that time.

This photo became Mao Zedong's classic image at that time: wearing the octagonal red military hat, his expression was calm and full of British spirit.

According to the memory of the international friend who was present at the time, Snow might feel that Mao Zedong's hair was slightly messy when taking pictures, so he put on Mao Zedong, which was worn by himself, and this famous photo.

In the northern and Soviet district of Shaanxi, many people at that time were undoubtedly adventurous. Snow himself is not unreasonable. Because he heard that there were a lot of epidemics there, he had hit all the vaccines that could be used at the time. "But he did not shrink, and he passed through many obstacles and finally arrived in the Soviet area. He conducted a face -to -face interview with many characters in Red China. He even ran to the front line of the war to interview Peng Dehuai, Xu Haidong and others who were commanded in the war. Data, eventually presented a real and systematic red China in the book, spreading the voices of the Communist Party of China and the Red Army throughout the world. "The footprint said.

"When I read" Red Star Shining China ", the most impressive thing was that some of the glittering characters in the book: from the beginning to help Snow into Rev. Wang in the base, to the red little ghost Hu Jinkui who accompanied him to Mao Zedong, to Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai's main leaders of the Red Army, etc., regardless of the severity of ink, each character image in the book is very fresh and full. "Wang Wei said," Especially valuable is that in the background of the war, you can pay attention to meticulous attention to the background of the war. Human personality, experience, and destiny, this is also the reason why this work can continue to resonate, which moves our readers now. "

At the moment of life, Snow still thought that there was another book about China that was not finished. Before the departure of the Chinese medical team, the Chinese government had prepared the ward for Snow at Beijing Hyana Hospital, and rented the French flights and planned to receive him in China.

However, on the one hand, Snow thanked Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. At the same time, he said, "What am I going to China now? I can’t do anything for the friendship between the people of China and the United States now. When the patient goes to China, I don’t want to add burdens to China ... "

"I am a reporter and writer. The field of research is China. If I accept the funding or hospitality of the Chinese government, no matter how objective and fair I report, people will give me a question mark and I will lose the reader. A writer loses loses His readers are equivalent to losing his life! I and Edgar Snow have always done this. "Helen Snow once said to safety.

"A good story of 85 years"

The publication and circulation of "Red Star Shining China" also left many legendary stories.

"In foreign countries, it has been translated into more than 20 languages ​​to the world, placed on the desk of foreign leaders such as Roosevelt, and even affects some countries' policies to China. Its first Chinese version was born in 1938. In the Shanghai Concession, although the Kuomintang was banned immediately after publishing, it still quickly spread to the north and south of China in various ways. That was the war period. The specific issuance numbers of the year were not estimated, but the patriots from all walks of life saw its extraordinary value. Try to break through the blockade to spread it, such as changing the names, festivals, and so on. Countless patriotic youths were called by it and went to Yan'an to participate in the revolution. "The footprint said.

In February 1938, in Shanghai at the time, Mr. Hu Yuzhizhi secretly organized and published this work in the name of "Fuhe". This "Fusenya" is a folk non -profit publishing organization organized by some cultural and celebrities such as Hu Yuzhi. Considering the political environment at that time, the title of the book was not literally translated according to the English version of the book.

To this end, Snow said: "I am willing to give them some of my materials and copyrights. I hope that this translation can be sale as they expect, so it will help China."

In 1979, the "Westward Man" translated by the famous translator Dong Le Shan was published by Sanlian Bookstore. According to Dong Leshan's memories, Mr. Fan Yongyou found him in 1976, hoping to re -correct the 1938 edition of "Westward Man" in order to be reprinted.

In the process of correction, Dong Le Shan found that there were a lot of problems inside. Instead of correcting them one by one, it was better to re -translate. As a result, Dong Leshan wrote a hand -in -hand, translated for three years, and also corrected some of the historical facts of the original English version of the original book, name, place name, book name, political terms, etc. As a result, this version has become a classic of Chinese translation of "Red Star Shining China".

In 2016, the People's Literature Publishing House re -launched the "Red Star Shining China" translated by Dong Le Shan. "This book has sold more than 13 million copies so far, and has been included in the textbooks of this language, which is recommended to thousands of young students. Faith and struggle are of great significance. "Footprints said.

"The fate of our humanities club and" Red Star Shining China ", in fact, started with Mr. Feng Xuefeng, the first leader of our agency." Wang Wei said, "That was in 1936, Feng Xuefeng was working in Shanghai in Shanghai. Ms. Song Qingling Help Snow conveyed the demand for interviews to the Soviet area to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and then the relevant leaders sent Feng Xuefeng to contact the work. At that time, the Soviet Area hoped to come to a fair reporter and a doctor with superb medical skills, so we saw Snow and Hehehe Ma Haide went to the Soviet area. This has become a story that our agency and "Red Star Shining China" have spanned 85 years. "

Yang Xinlan, who participated in the new version of the editor, also formed a wonderful book fate with "Red Star Shining China". This red classic appeared in front of Yang Xinlan in an unexpected way.

When participating in the revision, Yang Xinlan received a friend's WeChat, saying that his father was watching Yan'an, who had watched "Red Star Shining China", and always collected the old book of the 1938 edition of the Fuhe.The Chinese book name- "West West", the back of the ring lining also has Mao Zedong's verse "the Red Army is not afraid of expeditionary difficulties", which is copied by Snow in a brush.This year marks the 50th anniversary of Snow's death.On February 15, 1972, Snow died of cancer in Geneva, Switzerland.He left a will during his lifetime: "I love China, I am willing to leave me there after I die, just like when I was alive ..." In 1934, Snow had served as a lecturer at the Department of Journalism of Yanjing University.On October 19, 1973, in accordance with Snow's last wishes, he buried part of his ashes on the banks of Weiming Lake (formerly Yanjing University) at Peking University.The tombstone reads a simple text: "American friends of the Chinese people, the tomb of Edgar Snow."

(Reporter Ji Yen)

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