What is the main content of Snow's "Red Star Shining on China"?

The plot of "Red Star Shines on China" tells the story of Snow, a young American journalist in the 1930s and 1940s, who examined the period from 1928 to 1941 from a unique perspective through his thirteen years of work, interviews and personal experiences in China. Stories about major historical events, changes, opportunities and coincidences that happened on the land of China, and Comrade Soong Ching Ling helped Snow go deep into the front lines of the revolution many times to learn the true information about the Chinese Communist Party's Long March and the War of Resistance.

In China in 1928, hundreds of thousands of people were massacred on charges of "rebelling the Party" and "collaborating with the Communist Party." American young man Edgar Snow traveled to China. In order to survive, Snow became a reporter and was instructed to write articles praising those in power. But Snow refused to go against his conscience. His truthful reporting of China's reality won him the friendship of some revolutionaries and progressives, and also made him a thorn in the eyes of those in power, and he went through many hardships as a result.

During his contacts with the revolutionaries, Snow was infected by their spirit and came up with the idea of ??interviewing the Red Army. Finally, with the help of Song Qingling and others, Snow became the first Western reporter to arrive in the Soviet area, interview revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, and wrote the famous "Red Star Shines on China."

In 1941, Snow was expelled back to the United States for exposing Chiang Kai-shek's perverse actions in the southern Anhui Incident. In the 1960s, Snow was forced to emigrate to Switzerland due to McCarthyism. In 1971, Snow came to China again as a messenger between China and the United States and was received by Mao Zedong and other national leaders. Snow passed away on the eve of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

Extended information:

"Red Star Shining on China" (a documentary work created by Edgar Snow) is also known as "The Journey to the West", with a total of 12 chapters.

Chapter list:

Part 1: Exploring Red China

1. Some unanswered questions

2. Slow train to Xi’an

3. Han Dynasty Bronze

4. Through the red gate

Part 2: The road to Hongdu

1. Being chased by white bandits

2. Rebel

3. Two or three things about He Long

4. Red Army Traveling Companions

Part Three: On Security

1. Soviet power figures

2. The basic policies of the Communist Party

3. On the Anti-Japanese War

4. There is a reward of two million yuan on the head

5. Red Army Drama Club

Part 4: The Origin of a Communist Party Member

1. Childhood

2. Days in Changsha

3. The prelude to revolution

4. National Revolutionary Period

5. Soviet Movement

6. The Growth of the Red Army

Part Five: The Long March

1. The Fifth Encirclement and Suppression

2. Nationwide migration

3. Heroes of Dadu River

4. Too Big Grass

Part 6 The Red Star is in the Northwest

1. Shaanxi Soviet Area: Founding Period

2. Death and taxes

3. Soviet society

4. Anatomy of Currency

5. Life begins at fifty!

Part 7: On the way to the front line

1. Talking to red farmers

2. Soviet Area Industry

3. "They sang too much"

Part 8: Together with the Red Army

1. The “real” Red Army

2. Impressions of Peng Dehuai

3. Why be a Red Army

4. Guerrilla tactics

5. The life of a Red Army soldier

6. Political Lesson

Part 9: Together with the Red Army (continued)

1. Xu Haidong, a red kiln worker

2. China’s Class War

3. Four Major Horses

4. Muslims and Marxists

Part 10 War and Peace

1. Let’s talk about horses again

2. "Red Little Ghost"

3. The united front in practice

4. About Zhu De

Chapter 11 Return to Security

1. Encounter on the road

2. The life of a security guard

3. Russian influence

4. The Chinese Communist Movement and the Communist International

5. That foreign think tank

6. Farewell, Red China

Part 12: The White World Again

1. Prelude to the mutiny

2. The Commander-in-Chief was arrested

3. Chiang, Zhang and the Communist Party

4. "Tit for tat"

5. "Auld Lang Syne"?

6． The Red Sky

Appendix 1: Suffixes in the new translation of "Journey to the West"

Appendix 2: Snow's photography and interview activities in the Northwest Soviet Area

Appendix Three: Snow’s Living Room and the December 9th Student Movement

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - "Red Star Shines on China"