Edgar Snow was the first who has meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leader in 1936, and the first one to bring back an account of the men, the movement, and their seemingly impossible goals. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, which has since become the classic work on the subject. This new edition includes: • Extensive new notes on military and political development in China uo to the present • Further interviews with Mao Tse-tung never before published • A Chronology of 125 years of Chinese Revolution • Almost one hundred detailed biographies of the mean and women who, fist introduced in the original edition.