Red Star Over China Essay

Reflective Essay on Red Star over China The Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded in 1921, the rapid development of it had result in the establishment of the Peoples’ Republic of China in 1949 changing the history of China ever since. “Without the Communist Party, there would have be no New China” , songs with such verses glorifying the Chinese Communist Party were widely known through the whole China that even children can sing them. However, this is only qualified within the China since the outsider have limited access and remaining unknown to the outside. Edgar Snow, an American journalist and the author of “Red Star over China” was the first westerner that gain access to the Chinese Communist Party. Snow travelled to Shaanxi, China

Although Snow had interview both Red and White army, however mainly victims from the white army and mainly solider serving the Red army was interview. Receiving mainly positive aspects of the Red army, “The Red army fought to help and free the poor people”, on the other hands, negative aspect of the White army “Poor people being slaves of the Nationalist party and landlord.” Additionally, through Snow’s description of the Long March, “it is impossible to deny recognition of their Long March, as one of the great exploits of military history” (Snows, 1938, p.205), Snow praises the endurance and bravery in the Red army, despite only 10,000 out of 87,000 had survived the march, Snows described it as a model of romantic adventure with heroic perspective, and was “unquestionably a strategic retreat, it can hardly be called a major disaster.” But refuse to mention the losses of the event. Similarly throughout “Red Star over China”, Snow rarely mentions failure and defeat of the Communist, making excuses and explanations for those he did mentioned, and refuse to face the one that he was unable to