<p>The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao''s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came <i>Red Star Over China</i>, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China.<br><br>This edition includes extensive notes on the military and political developments in China, further interviews with Mao Tse-tung, a chronology covering 125 years of Chinese revolution and nearly a hundred detailed biographies of the men and women who were instrumental in making China what it is today.</p>