Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow

Non-fiction

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with t

asia, china, civilwar, longmarch, mao, marxism

Hungry Ghosts

Chinas Secret Famine

Jasper Becker

History

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history.

china, famine, mao

Mao: A Life

Philip Short

Biography

When the Nationalists routed a ragtag Red Army on the Xiang River during the Long March, an earthy Chinese peas

china, communism, mao