It was him, the first time he told the world a "red China"

On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army launched the "September 18th Incident" that invaded Northeast China -this is the beginning of the Japanese imperialist war in China and the beginning of China's local anti -Japanese war. The prelude to the battlefield.

At the time of this shocking incident, a foreign journalist was in China. He witnessed the "Twenty -eight" Songhu Anti -Japanese War in 1932 and the Rehears in 1933. After that, he became a professor of news at Yanjing University at Peiping and learned Chinese at the same time. He met the famous American progressive journalist Smedley, and also contacted Lu Xun, Song Qingling and some underground party members of the Communist Party of China. It can be said that at this time, he became an authentic "China Tong", which was full of interest in China's changing situation.

However, not only the foreign journalist was interested in the situation in China. In fact, the entire world at that time turned its attention to the ancient Chinese land. In 1936, in 1936, China was full of internal and external problems. The Anti -Japanese War was about to explode. At the same time, the Communist Party of China has just completed the Long March, retreat from southeast China to the northwest, and is trying to establish a united front to fight against Japanese imperialism.

In 1936, the Communist Party of China had been established for 15 years, but at that time, no Western media had officially reported it to the outside world. During this period, there were a series of unconventional questions about the Chinese communist movement internationally. Therefore, the foreign reporter thought to himself: "In order to prove the truth of the matter, isn't it worth taking a foreigner's head to take a danger?"

Therefore, in 1936, with his own news ideals, with the countless problems about revolution and war that could not be understood at the time, he risked to the Kuomintang's heavy blockade and entered the Northern Shaanxi Soviet area. "Western reporter with the leaders of the Communist Party of China.

This risky foreign journalist is the famous American journalist Edgar Snow. After leaving northern Shaanxi, he wrote many wonderful news reports for newspapers and periodical newspapers in the UK and the United States, including Mao Zedong's head wearing red stars. The article "Mao Zedong's Interview" of the military hat "Mao Zedong's Interview" shocked the world. Snow gathered the records and interview records in the northern Shaanxi Soviet area into a book, named the Red Star Over CHINA, and the Chinese book name is "Red Star Shining China". In October 1937, the book of Red Star Over CHINA was first published by the Gelazz Company London, which had a sensational impact at the time.

"Red Star Shining China" is the first interview record of Western journalists to the Communist Party of China and the Red Army. It is also a milestone work in the history of journalism and reporting literature. It has a wide and profound impact worldwide in the world. It has classicism and is translated into it. Nearly twenty texts, it is not only the classic readers of Chinese readers who understand the Long March, but also the basic publication of the Long March in the Western academic community.

Edgar Snow's daughter Xi'an Snow wrote in the preface written by the translation of the "Red Star Shining China" of the Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House:

"In June 1936, American journalist Edgar Snow had a lot of doubts, passed through the Kuomintang's heavy blockade, and came to the" mysterious and dangerous "'red China'. Here he was on major events in China and the world. He interviewed Mao Zedong. He also encountered a learned diplomat Zhou Enlai and a kitchen knife. Helong, a kitchen knife. Snow records the extraordinary life experience of revolutionary leaders and learns the wishes of farmers, workers, students, and soldiers. And their sacrifice for the revolutionary cause. He observed the growth of the Chinese Soviet movement and the development of the Red Army. Four months later, he first disclosed his own record of his personal experience in Red China for the first time. He predicts that the Chinese revolution is like the stars of the stars Fire will definitely become the flame of Liaoyuan. "

On July 19, 2022, it was the 117th anniversary of Edgar Snow's birthday. Let's review the unimpeded career of this famous journalist and "Red China":

Edgar Snow was born on July 19, 1905 in a poor family in Kansas City, USA. When he was young, he was a peasant, railway workers and printed apprentices. After graduating from college, he began to work in news work. Later, he was a seafarer on a foreign cargo ship, traveled to Central America, and had been in Hawaii. During this period, he still provided manuscripts for some US newspapers.

In 1928, Snow went to Shanghai as an assistant editor of the Miller Review Daily, and later served as a special communicator of the New York "Sun" and London Pioneer Driver.

After 1930, Snow collected news and visited major cities and regions in China, including the three Eastern provinces, Inner Mongolia, Taiwan, and Japan, North Korea, and Dutch East India. He also traveled for a long time in various provinces in southwestern China. He visited Burma and India in western Yunnan Province to the west of Yunnan Province and visited Gandhi and other Indian revolutionary leaders.

After the "September 18th Incident" in 1931, he went to the Northeast to interview. On January 28, 1932, Japan invaded Shanghai, and he witnessed the anti -Japanese strike held by more than 40,000 workers in Shanghai at the scene to support the 19th Route Army against Japan. On the day of the "One Two Nine" campaign in 1935, Snow contacted reporters from several countries to the scene to interview. As mentioned earlier, in 1936, he went to the Northern Shaanxi Soviet Area and visited "Red China". In "Red China" in 1936, Snow interviewed senior figures of the Soviet government of the Chinese Soviet government, including the first Chinese red diplomacy. —— Zhou Enlai, there is a kitchen knife revolutionary and legendary General He Long, the founder of Shaanxi Soviet, Liu Zhidan, and Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist Party, who has fought for the world for ten years, and the world situation. Lin Zuhan, the Minister of Finance, wearing a five -yuan allowance and a glasses with a glasses with a glasses, has a confident educator Xu Teli, who has a bright personality, loves children, and can think of unique strategic tactics. On the one hand, Peng Dehuai, commander of the army, Xu Haidong, a red kiln worker, and Zhu De, chief of the Red Army. Snow also interviewed different groups in the Soviet area. For example, the Red Army, who has experienced unfortunate life but is optimistic, is optimistic, is well -organized, and has a revolutionary consciousness that the white army cannot copy. At the same time, he also recorded a panoramic record of the military strategy, monetary policy, industrial development, social relations, and political life in the Soviet Area. Especially for the first time, the background and passage of the Red Army Long March were recorded in detail, and the significance of its significance was made. Highly evaluated.

After that, Snow had worked in China until February 1941. After February 1941, Snow accepted the task of "New York Pioneer Tapers", went to Southeast Asia and India for interviews, and left China.

Snow has always had deep feelings for China. After 1949, he came to China to visit three times and was cordially received by Mao Zedong. On February 15, 1972, he died in Geneva, Switzerland. In accordance with his last wish, part of his ashes were buried on the bank of the unnamed lake of Peking University. To commemorate his affection and affection with the Chinese people, Snow was rated as "100 hero models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China" and "Chinese Fate • Top Ten International Friends".

"Red Star Shining China"

[US] Edgar Snow

Wang Tao translated

Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction: "Red Star Shining China" is the first interview record of Western reporters to the Communist Party of China and the Red Army, and it is also a milestone in the history of journalism and reporting literature. The book not only records a large number of first -hand information about the Chinese Red Army and the Soviet Area, as well as the revolutionary leaders such as Mao Zedong, but also in -depth analysis and exploring the reasons for the development and development of "Red China". evaluation of. Due to its authoritative records of history and accurate foreseeing historical trends, this book has become a classic masterpiece that is popular all over the world, and has been translated into nearly twenty words.

Photo source: "Red Star Shining China" inner page illustration

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