How the "Red Star" Rose - Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong

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Ishikawa Yoshihiro, Joshua Fogel
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 370pg
12 Aug 2021 HK
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9789882372078
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Until the present day, Mao Zedong' s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow' s (1905-1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth. How the "Red Star" Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. There is no reason that Mao Zedong the person himself would completely change by virtue of the publication of Red Star. However, the external image surrounding him did completely change from before. Ishikawa uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being. He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of not only Mao' s image but of that of "historical materials. " This book also examines the situation prevailing after the collection of data and publication of Red Star which played the definitive role in generating Mao' s image and will investigate the various editions of Red Star in English, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.
This study is full of unexpected insights into the origins of early visual images of Mao, the background to Snow' s historic trip to northern Shaanxi, and the evolution of the classic study that he left. In a world where balanced judgment of the rise of Mao is increasingly difficult to find, Ishikawa' s scholarship stands out as a rare model of judicious balance. --Joseph W. Esherick, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Ishikawa Yoshihiro ( ) is Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. He specializes in the history of the Chinese Communist Party, modern Chinese thought and politics, and Sino-Japanese exchanges. Joshua A . Fogel is Canada Research Chair Professor in modern Chinese history at York University. He specializes in the cultural ties between China and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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ISBN-13: 9789882372078
Published: 12 Aug 2021
Published In: Hong Kong
Imprint: The Chinese University Press
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 370

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