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...finally broke through the Nationalist blockade of the Communists in northern Shensi province in 1936 and spent four months with Mao, Chou and other leaders. The resulting book, Red Star Over China, was a masterpiece of reporting, and it cast Snow from then on as both a biographer and a sometime spokesman for Mao. Author Theodore White, who covered China during World War II. calls Red Star "an example of classic reportage. Ed's discovery and description of Chinese Communism was a staggering achievement, like Columbus discovering America." Said Snow of Mao: "Here is a man in whom...
...recently forbade foreigners to read and report on wall posters, a ban that is scarcely enforceable. Chinese radio communications monitored in Tokyo indicated a spreading breakdown in transportation. Passenger service in the Yangtze between Shanghai and Wuhan has been discontinued, and China's only electrified rail line, connecting Shensi and Szechwan provinces, was reported out of order...
...cantonment of Canton by the army added the city and its province, Kwangtung, to the roster of five other provinces-Shensi, Kweichow, Heilungkiang, Shantung and Kiangsu-that the Maoists claim to have fully captured for the revolution with army aid. Three days later, Radio Peking proclaimed that the army had taken over industrial and agricultural production in three more southern provinces. In his struggle to impose his will on China's 750 million people, Mao has clearly turned to dependence on the army instead of the Red Guards...
...guerrilla teachings, Chiang Kai-shek's superior Kuomintang forces drove the Reds out of populous South China, and thus began the legendary Long March-a year-long hegira of some 7,000 miles over seven mountain ranges to the remote fastness of Shensi province in the northwest. Lin commanded the vanguard of the 90,000 Red marchers, forging ahead personally on donkeyback in search of edible herbs and grasses. Riddled with illness and strafed by Kuomintang aircraft, Lin's van still managed to break through the ranks of the "six-legged enemy" (Chiang's cavalry) when...
...Communist bank is directed by Chairman Nan Han-chen, 73, a deceptively benign looking finance specialist who took part in the abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Taiwan's branches abroad are becoming the bank's vital arm. Last year the Nationalist bank reported earnings of $3,200,000, its biggest profit-and $2,300,000 of that came from overseas operations...