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Red star over China

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Description: The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with an authorized account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came this book--a classic work about the birth of the Communist movement in China.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1938]
Call number: 654154
Creator: Snow, Edgar (1905-1972)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: From the Hong family library.; Illustrated bookplate of You Chung Hong.
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated people: Hong, You Chung, (1898-1977,)

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