Red Star Over China (1)

In a high school 語文 textbook published by 人民教育出版社, in a volume with the theme of “Selections from Biographies, Chinese and Western,” the third excerpted biography (after those of Du Fu and Lu Xun) is Mao Zedong’s by Edgar Snow. I wondered a bit when I came across that. But it seems that things don’t happen in singletons. First a textbook joins the two men, now a tv series does. We know why Snow was widely read (in English) back then. What are the reasons now (in Chinese)?

Best regards,

Eva Shan Chou <choues@gmail.com>

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