Books by Edgar Snow
“He was the first foreign journalist to risk this trek to the forbidden Communist state in China’s West in the second half of the 1930s, when it was under heavy blockade by the Nationalist government. Snow invested a lot of time and energy in bringing an untold story out into the world…There is also much that is troubling about the book, especially Snow’s unquestioning, even adulatory, response to Mao’s story about the Communist past and present.” Read more...
Julia Lovell, Historian
Interviews where books by Edgar Snow were recommended
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Mao’s Last Revolution
by Michael Schoenhals & Roderick MacFarquhar -
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Maoism at the Grassroots
edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson -
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Red Star over China
by Edgar Snow -
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The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal's Maoist Revolution
by Aditya Adhikari -
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A Critical Introduction to Mao
by Timothy Creek
The best books on Maoism, recommended by Julia Lovell
The best books on Maoism, recommended by Julia Lovell
While researching Maoism, China expert Julia Lovell battled against two incorrect assumptions: “firstly that Maoism is a story of China; and secondly that Maoism is a story of the past.” Here she recommends five books for coming to grips with the global, still-relevant impact of Maoism.
The best books on American Foreign Reporting, recommended by John M Hamilton
The Professor of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University discusses American foreign correspondents. Laments the lack of swashbuckling approach amongst current crop of journalists
The best books on Popular Protest in China, recommended by Elizabeth Perry
To fully understand unrest in China today you have to go back to the 1930s and the circumstances which led to the Chinese Communist Party taking power, says Harvard political scientist Elizabeth Perry. She recommends the best books on popular protest in China.
