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China: Edgar Snow with Chairman Mao Zedong, Beijing 1970

China: Edgar Snow with Chairman Mao Zedong, Beijing 1970

Edgar Snow (17 July 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri – 15 February 1972 in Geneva) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He is believed to have been the first Western journalist to interview Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, and is best known for Red Star Over China (1937) an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.

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