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OverviewEdgar Snow (1905 - 1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and post-revolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade, no foreign reporter had seen the Communists, who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news, even to the Chinese, thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography, journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, his ostracism during the cold war, and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author, this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Maxwell HamiltonPublisher: Louisiana State University Press Imprint: Louisiana State University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.549kg ISBN: 9780807129128ISBN 10: 0807129127 Pages: 343 Publication Date: 30 September 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'A better-than-fiction tale of the adventures of a remarkable American and a portrait of Asia in transition from the colonial period.' Seymour Topping, New York Times Book Review """'A better-than-fiction tale of the adventures of a remarkable American and a portrait of Asia in transition from the colonial period.' Seymour Topping, New York Times Book Review""" Author InformationJohn Maxwell Hamilton is author or coauthor of five books, most recently Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books. He is dean and Hopkins P. Breazeale Foundation Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University and a longtime commentator on Public Radio International's Marketplace. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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