What is the writing background of The Red Star Shines? What was the domestic and international situation at that time?

From June 1936 to June 10, the author made an on-the-spot investigation in the northwest revolutionary base areas, had many long talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and collected the first-hand information of the 25,000-mile long March. In addition, he also went deep into the Red Army soldiers and ordinary people, and made an extensive and in-depth investigation on the military and civilian life, local political reform, people's feelings and customs in the Soviet area.

Situation at home and abroad:

At home, the Red Army's Long March joined forces with Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a letter to the Kuomintang, once again calling for stopping the civil war, unanimously resisting Japan, realizing the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and forming a national anti-Japanese United front on the basis of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. During the Xi Incident, General Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng detained Chiang Kai-shek in Xi, forcing him to stop the civil war and unite against Japan.

Foreign-Spanish conservative officers launched riots and the Spanish Civil War broke out. Germany and Italy signed the Berlin Agreement, forming the "Berlin-Rome" axis. Franklin delano roosevelt was re-elected in the US presidential election.

The extended material "Red Star Shines on China" not only achieved great success in the political sense, but also became a model of similar works in the artistic techniques of reportage creation. The angles of characterization, environmental description and narration are almost superb. After the Chinese version of Red Star Shines on China was published, it also produced great repercussions in China. Thousands of young people in China took to the revolutionary road because they read The Red Star Shines on China.

About the author: edgar snow (1905.7.1-1972.2.15), a famous American journalist. 1928 came to China and worked as a reporter and correspondent in many newspapers in Europe and America.

From April 1933 to June 1935, Si Nuo was also a lecturer in the journalism department of yenching university, Beiping. From June 65438 to June 0936, Si Nuo visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and wrote a lot of communication reports, becoming the first western journalist to cover the Red Zone. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as a war correspondent in China for the Daily Herald and the American Saturday Evening Post. 1942 went to Central Asia and the Soviet Union for an interview and left China.

After the founding of New China, he visited China three times and met with President Mao Zedong.

1972 February 15 died in Geneva, Switzerland. According to his last wish, some of his ashes were buried in China, on the unnamed lake in Peking University.

References:

Red Star Shines on China —— Reference of Baidu Encyclopedia;

Edgar snow-Baidu encyclopedia