Once upon a time, this book was once read by every China watcher and Sinophile and Pacific theorist. It's no longer a bit of 'current events journalism', but it's still of historical value.Edgar Snow, a young naive American journalist, wanders into the Communist Chinese territories in Shaanxi pro...
of the Shui Hu Chuan, and by the exploits of the heroes of the Romance of Three Kingdoms, who had fought over the fields and mountains of his native Szechuan. He gravitated naturally toward military life. Helped by his family’s political influence, he was accepted in the new Yunnan Military Acade...