RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHES
RED STAR
OVER
CHINA
BY EDGAR SNOW
The only foreign correspondent who penetrated deep into Northwest China and returned to tell the tale, describes with first-hand detail the amazing stories of :
☆ The 6000-mile “ Long March “ of the army of Chu Teh , “ The Red Napoleon. “
☆ The inside story of the kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek, and its tremendous consequences.
☆ China’s united front against Japan, and its war tactics and objectives.
With the only pictures ever taken behind the lines of the Chinese Red Army.
RED STAR OVER
CHINA
BY EDGAR SNOW
The
Adventure Book
Political Book
Travel Book
of the year
“ Magnificent ”
says John Gunther
“ The timeliest book imaginable, and as good a job of reportings as has ever been done. He tells us just what we must know to understand the contemporary Chinese tragedy. ”
“ The Real China ”
says Havelock Ellis
“ A reliable picture of the Eastern situation at last!”
“ One of the greatest books of our generation ”
says the London Observer
“ As exciting a book of adventure as has ever been written. ”
$3.00
After you have read this book you will really understand what is happening in China today.
RED STAR OVER
CHINA
BY EDGAR SNOW
This is a record of unique and permanent importance that covers the life of China during the past nine years, up to late August, 1937, and explains clearly the extraordinary events and intrigues that finally resulted in the present united stand of China against Japan.
Edgar Snow, chief correspondent in the Far East for the London Daily Herald, sent the following letter to his publishers, along with the photographs that are reproduced in this volume :
“ Except fo the few pictures taken by the Reds themselves which have never been available for publication, these are the only pictures ever taken of the Chinese Red Army, of life in the Soviet districts, and of Red political and militally leaders. The Kuomintang armies have been fighting with the Communist armies in China ever since 1927. Millions of words have been written about these wars, but no one, Chinese or foreign , has actually entered Red territory, visited Red leaders, investigated Soviet life, and returned to write the story. All other accounts are based upon Kuomintang propaganda or on the secret information from Communist sources which
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could not be verified by any objective observer. For nine years there has been a complete news blockade enforced around all Soviet districts in China by the surrounding Government forces. I am the first person to have broken this blockade, entered Red China, and brought out the story for the world. It sounds incredible that such a condition could actually have exisited but such is the case. The reasons are these :
“1.Because Communism is a crime punishable by death in China. No Chinese Red, therefore, has been free to enter and return and write about what he saw. Foreign Communists have been excluded because it would have been a matter of the gravest danger to pass he Kuomingtang blockade; they would certainly have been killed or deported long before reaching the fort.
“2.Red Areas in China because of the nature of the Chinese revolution have been in the interior, and isolated from the big cities, and they have been encircled by cordons and cordons of Kuomingtang troops. In the 5th Campaign against the Reds in the south over 1,000,000 men made up this encirclement.
“ I am not trying to doramatize myself, you must understand, but merely to state the facts in the case so that the uniqueness of my pictures and also of the book I am going to write will be known to you, in case you do not have much idea of the nature of my material.
Red Star Over China is the book Snow “ was going to write. “ It was completed in August, 1937. Snow is now with the Chinese armies in the field, covering the war that he predicted with such uncanny accuracy.
After you have read this book you will really understand what is happening in China today.
Illustrations
( For a detailed description of each photograph, see page 451 )
Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government・Wall Newspapers
Lin Pai-chu, Commissioner of Finance・Tai Chi'en・Chou En-lai・Staff of the First Army Corps・Big Four of Soviet China・Fang Wen-ping(left)and Sun Jen-chiung, Youthful Red Leaders.
“ Chu-Mao ”・Red Flag and Kuomingtang Flag Crossed in Union, Symbolic of United Front・Nanking Delegation Visits Soviet China
“ Even the Poorest Shall Read ”
Part of the Staff of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese First Front Army
Hsieh Chu-tsai・Hsu Teh-lieh, Commissioner of Education in the Northwest Soviet Government・Fu Ch'in-kuei, a “ Little Red Devil ” Grown Up・A “ Veteran ” of Many Wars
Chinese Northwest Soviet Post Office・Library Table in the Soviet Districts・Flood Refuges
Ho Tzu-chien, Wife of Mao Tse-tung・“ Saturday Brigade ”
Mohammedam Red Peasants
Youthful Actors Attached to First Army Corps in Ninghsia・“ Little Red Devils ”
Red Cadets' Theatre・“ Sing and Fight ”
Red Warriors of North Shensi
Red Machine-gun Squad・Regimental Flag-bearers of the 15th Army Corps・Red Artillery・Aeroplane Captured by the Reds
Commander P'eng Teh-huai( left )with Two Comrades “ The Little Red Colonel ”
“ Little Devil ” of North Shensi・Gneneral Fu Tso-yi・Hsu Hai-tung,Commander of the 15th Red Army Corps Hsiao K'eh・Chinese Red Salute the Spanish Republicans Wife of Chu Teh・Wu Kuang-wei、Official Interpreter of the Red' Foreign Office・Wei Kung-chi, Director of the People's Anti-Japanese Theatre
Soviet Workers’ Club Room・Red Cooperative
Fighting Red Farmers of China・Manchurian Volunteers from the White Ranks・“ Bandit Nurses ”
Chu-Teh, Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army・Chu-Teh , Command Addresses His Men
Liu Chen-hsien, Secretary of the Women's Department of the Shensi Provincial Trade Unions
Teng Fa, Chief of the Revolutionary Defense Corps
Lin Piao, President of the Red Aemy Academy in Pao-an and Outstanding Tactical Genius of All Military Officers in China, Red or White
Colonel Sun Ming-chin (left)with Two of the Young Marshal's Secretaries・Hsu Meng-ch'u・Commissar Tsai・Hsiao Ching-kuang
First Army Corps Staff
Red “ Bandits ” after Their Game
Red Citadel in Ninghsia Province
Reds about to Occupy Medieval City of Chi Hsien, Shansi Province
Memorial to the Dead Fighters of the Red Army
Detailed Description of Photographs 〔下は、その一部〕
Mao Tse-tung the acknowledged political leader of all the Chinese Communists. He was elected Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government in 1934 at a congress attended by the delegates representing 9,000,000 people then living under Chinese Red laws.
(Photo by Edgar Snow) facing page 66
Lin Piao, Graduate of Whampoa Academy and once Ciang Kai-shek's most brilliant young tactician, is at twenty-eight conceded to be the outstanding tactical genius of all military officers in China. He has developed many new and impotant war manoeuvres, and his articles on military tactics have been widely reprinted in Soviet Russia and even in the Kuomingtang armies' own journals. Lin and his army have never suffered a single defeat, but have disarmed literally scores of Kuomingtang regiments in their nine years of fighting with Kuomingtang troops. He is today acting President of the Red Army Academy in Pao-an.
(Photo by Edgar Snow) facing page 371
〔蔵書目録注〕
本書は、Edgar Snow(エドガー・スノー)の 『RED STAR OVER CHINA』で、所蔵本は Special Edition RANDOM HOUSE・NEW YORK 1938 FIRST PRINTING である。
上は、カバー写真とその記述、写真目次、及び表紙、見返しの地図、毛沢東、林彪等の写真である。
その日本語訳本は、書名が『中国の赤い星』で知られる。
その中国語訳本は、書名が『西行漫記』で、所蔵本は 復社 四版 平装本 である。
なお、原書や訳本などの詳細な論考に、石川禎浩氏の 『中国の赤い星』再読 がある。
下の写真は、所蔵本『西行漫記』の表紙、見返しの長征路線圖、毛沢東、林彪と毛沢東、奥付、裏の見返しの西北邊區圖等である。
西行漫記
愛特伽・斯諾著
1938
RED STAR OVER CHINA
by Edgar Snow
愛特伽・斯諾著
西行漫記 1938
復社藏版
目次
挿圖目次
1.抗戰之聲
2.紅第一軍團在寧夏
3.寧夏回民紅軍聯歡大會
4.毛澤東
5.毛澤東朱德周恩來博古
6.林彪毛澤東
7.羅炳輝
8.彭德懐
9.鄧發
10.陳賡
11.賀龍
12.蕭克
13.徐海東
14.徐向前
15.蘇維埃二次代表大會
16.瑞金紅軍烈士記念塔
17.江西井崗山最初紅軍幹部
18.紅十五軍團攻下定邊的先鋒隊
19.紅二五二六二七軍會師永平
20.林伯渠
21.蘇區的單據印刷品
22.甘肅少先隊一個隊長
23.紅軍中的男女護士
24.謝覺之
25.徐特立
26.『窮人也應該讀書』
27.學習拉丁化新文字
28.紅色圖書館閲覽室
29.紅軍敬禮
30.紅軍的礮兵
31.農民游撃隊
32.紅軍大學士兵的歡唱
33.蔡暢女士與回民婦女工作者
34.前線的女護士
35.「山西娃娃」
36.一個少年先鋒隊員
37.何紫蓮女士
38.劉羣仙女士
39.朱德
40.「朱毛」
41.第一軍團参謀部人員
42.第五軍團的騎兵
43.抗日紅軍戰士劇社(二幅)
44.成仿吾
45.跳舞劇
46.禮拜六團幫助農民割稻
47.國共合作(二幅)
48.延安抗日民衆大會
49.東北軍與紅軍聯合抗日
50.長征路線圖 ‥‥ 封面内
51.西北邊區圖 ‥‥ 底面内
民國二十七年二月十日初版、二十七年四月十日再版
民國二十七年十月十日三版、二十七年十一月十日四版
西行漫記
美國 斯諾著
四版精裝本五〇〇册・平裝本一五〇〇册・毎版二〇〇〇册
精裝實價二元四角・平装一元八角・復社印行