Some comments on Red Star Over China and Eva Chou’s query about the revival of interest in it:
- Snow went to Shensi (home of Xi Zhongxun and Xi Jinping)
- Snow was widely read in China back then (Ch. translations appeared before the US Version came out)
- Snow also met Lu Xun
- Snow did NOT meet “with Communist leaders including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai in Xi’an” as this was KMT area.
- Snow did meet General secretary Zhang Wentian and others in Bao’an.
- The “80th anniv.” does not refer to the First army with Zhang, Zhou, Mao which arrived in ’35.
Yours,
Thomas Kampen <tk1893@yahoo.com>