Edgar Snow (left) with Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao approx. 1938.

Half of Edgar Snow's remains are buried on the campus of Peking University, Beijing, alongside the Unnamed Lake.

Edgar Snow (b. 17 July 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri, d. 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 be 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. Image File history File links WHU-Zhou. ... Image File history File links WHU-Zhou. ... Zhou Enlai (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chou En-lai) (March 5, 1898 – January 8, 1976), a prominent Communist Party of China leader, was Premier of the Peoples Republic of China from 1949 until his death in January 1976, and Chinas foreign minister from 1949 to... Deng Yingchao with Zhou Enlai, 1954 Deng (right), with Edgar Snow (left) and Zhou approx. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links Edgar_snow_tomb. ... Image File history File links Edgar_snow_tomb. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; IPA: ;  ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ... “Mao” redirects here. ... Mao Zedong in 1931. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Biography

He studied journalism at the University of Missouri, where he joined the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi, but moved to New York City before graduating. He made some money in the stock market and sold out before the crash of 1929. He moved to China in 1928 and stayed until 1941. While in China, he wrote and published numerous articles and books. He also worked for the Chinese government in Beijing. In 1937 he published the work that was to make him famous, Red Star Over China, an account of the Communist revolutionary movement from its founding, through the Long March, and up until the Communists settled temporarily in the Yan'an base area in the mid-1930s. Snow conducted interviews for much of the book's contents in Bao'an, then Mao's headquarters, introducing the world to the Communist Party of China leader Mao Zedong. The Communist Party of China he described in the book would, under Mao's leadership, go on to found the People's Republic of China in October of 1949. The University of Missouri–Columbia is a public land-grant university and is Missouris largest university and public research institution. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ) is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; IPA: ;  ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mao Zedong in 1931. ... Combatants Nationalist Party of China and allied warlords Communist Party of China Commanders Chiang Kai-shek various, eventually Mao Zedong Strength over 300,000 First Front Red Army: 86,000 (October 1934) 7,000 (October 1935) The Long March (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ) was a massive military retreat undertaken... Yanan (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Yen-an), is a city in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province, China. ... Baoan District (Chinese: 宝安, pinyin: BÇŽo Ä€n) is one of the six districts comprising Shenzhen, a major economic city in Guangdong Province, China. ... “Mao” redirects here. ... The Communist Party of China (CPC) (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China, a position guaranteed by the countrys constitution. ...

Snow returned to the United States in 1941 with his American wife, Helen Foster. In April of 1942 the Saturday Evening Post sent him abroad as a war correspondent. Snow traveled to India, China and Russia to report on World War II from the perspective of those countries. His 1944 book People On Our Side emphasized their role in the fight against fascism. Because of his communist ties, McCarthyism made life difficult for Snow, forcing him to leave America in the 1950s. He moved to Switzerland, but retained his American citizenship. There have been many publications called the Saturday Evening Post; several were/are local British newspapers. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... A 1947 comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society warning of the dangers of a Communist takeover. ...

He returned to China in 1960 and 1964 and interviewed Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. In 1969, he made a final trip to China and was told that President Richard Nixon would be welcome to visit either officially or as a private citizen. The White House followed this visit with interest but distrusted Snow and his liberal reputation. ^[1] When Snow came down with cancer, Zhou Enlai dispatched a team of Chinese doctors to Switzerland. Snow died on February 15, 1972, the week President Nixon was traveling to China, and did not live to see the normalization of relations. Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... “Mao” redirects here. ... Zhou Enlai (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chou En-lai) (March 5, 1898 – January 8, 1976), a prominent Communist Party of China leader, was Premier of the Peoples Republic of China from 1949 until his death in January 1976, and Chinas foreign minister from 1949 to... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Works

• Red Star Over China
• Red China Today: The Other Side of the River
• The Battle for Asia
• Far Eastern Front
• People On Our Side (Random House, 1944)
• China, Russia, and the USA
• The Long Revolution
• Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories

Mao Zedong in 1931. ...

Reading

Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning (New York: Random House, 1958). Memoir.

John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988). Review: Jonathan Mirsky, "Message from Mao," New York Review (February 16 1985): 15-17.

S. Bernard Thomas, Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

External link

• Edgar Snow Archives at the University of Missouri in Kansas City