Edgar Snow (1905--1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods. He first bec

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's life, as wel

Recounts the life and career of the American journalist who lived in China from 1928 to 1941, got to know Mao and the other Communist leaders, and introduced th