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Books by Edgar Snow

The following list provides a substantial overview of the books written by Edgar Snow and their various foreign editions. A longer list of the other published works by Snow, including his newspaper and magazine articles and book reviews, is available upon request.

1933	Far Eastern Front. New York: H. Smith and R. Haas.
1934	Far Eastern Front. London: Jarrolds.
1936	Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories. With introduction by Edgar Snow and essay by Nym Wales. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock.
1937	Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories. With introduction by Edgar Snow and essay by Nym Wales. London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd.
	Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories. With introduction by Edgar Snow and essay by Nym Wales. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock.
	Red Star Over China. (Left Book Club edition. Not for sale to the public.) London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
1938	Red Star Over China. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	Red Star Over China. New York: Random House. (special edition, first printing.)
1939	Red Star Over China. Rev. ed. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. (Mr. Snow . . . provided [for this edition] a substantial new section, entitled "Shadows on the Rising Sun" . . . He carries forward his account to July 1938.)
1941	The Battle for Asia. New York: Random House.
	The Battle for Asia. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co.
	Scorched Earth. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	Smash Hitler’s International: the Strategy of a Political Offensive Against the Axis. With Edmond Taylor and Eliot Janeway. New York: The Greystone Press.
1942	The Battle for Asia. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co.
1944	People on Our Side. New York: Edition for the Armed Services.
	People on Our Side. New York: Random House.
	Red Star Over China. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	Red Star Over China. New York: Modern Library.
1945	Glory and Bondage. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. [British title for People on Our Side.]
	Pattern of Soviet Power. New York: Random House.
	People on our side. Cleveland: World Publishing Company.
1946	Fra Stalingrad mot Seieren; overs. av Gorgus Coward og Sigurd Dyvik. Oslo, Tiden norsk forlag. [translation of People on Our Side.]
	Glory and Bondage. London: Angus and Robertson, Ltd.
1947	Stalin Must Have Peace. With an introduction by Martin Sommers. New York: Random House.
1948	Staline a Besoin de la Paix. Introduction de Martin Sommers. Tr. de l’americain par P.A. Gruenais. Paris: Editions du Bateau evie. [translation of Stalin Must Have Peace.]
1957	Random Notes on Red China (1936-1945). Cambridge: Chinese Economics and Political Studies, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press.
1958	Journey to the Beginning. New York: Random House.
1959	Journey to the Beginning. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
1961	Red Star Over China. Introduction by John K. Fairbank. New York: Grove Press. (A Black Cat Book BD-8.)
1962	La Chine en Marche. Paris: Stock.
	The Other Side of the River: Red China Today. New York: Random House.
	China, Russia and the U.S.A.: Changing Relations in a Changing World. New York: Marzani & Munsell. [material from The Other Side of the River.]
1963	The Other Side of the River: Red China Today. London: Readers Union, Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	Red Star Over China. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	War and Peace in Vietnam. New York: Marzani and Munsell. [reprinted from The Other Side of the River, with new introduction.]
1964	Etoile Rouge sur la Chine. Traduit de l’americain par Jacques Reclus. Ed. definitive rev. et corr par l’auteur. Paris: Stock. [translation of Red Star Over China.]
1965	La China Contemporanea: el otro lado del rio. [Traduccion de Julieta Campos. 1. ed.] Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. [translation of The Other Side of the River.]
	Stella Rossa Sulla Cina. A cura di Enrica Collotti Pischel. Traduzione di Renata Pisu. Torino, Giulio Einaudi. [translation of Red Star Over China.]
1966	La Chine en Marche. Traduit de l’americain. Ed. nouv. augm. d’une postface. Paris: Stock. [translation of The Other Side of the River.]
	L’altra Riva del Fuime: La Cina Oggi. Torino: Guilio Einaudi. [translation of The Other Side of the River.]
	The Other Side of the River: Red China Today. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
1968	Random Notes on Red China: 1936-1945. Cambridge: Chinese Economic and Political Studies, Harvard University Press.
	Red Star Over China. 1st revised and enlarged edition. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	Red Star Over China. 1st revised and enlarged edition. New York: Grove Press.
1970	Red China Today: the Other Side of the River. With a new preface. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
	Red China Today: the Other Side of the River. 1st American edition. New York: Random House.
	Red China Today: the Other Side of the River. Hongkong. [Text in Chinese]
1971	Crvena Zvijezda nad Kinom/Edgar Snow; preveo Krunoslav Poljak. l. redigirano i dopunjeno izd. -- Rijeka: Otokar Kersovani.
	The Long Revolution. London: Hutchinson.
	Random Notes on Red China: 1936-1945. (monograph) Cambridge: Eastern Asia Research Center, Harvard University.
	Red China Today. [1st American edition] New York: Random House.
	Red China Today. New York: Vintage Books.
	Rod stjarna over Kina. Boras: Askild and Karnekull. [translation of Red Star Over China.]
1972	Den Langa Revolutionen. Boras: Askild and Karnekull. [translation of The Long Revolution.]
	Journey to the Beginning. New York: Vintage Books.
	The Long Revolution. London: Hutchinson.
	The Long Revolution. New York: Random House.
	Red Star Over China. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
	Wo tsai chiu chung-kuo 13 nien. [Translated by Hsia Tsui-wei] Hong Kong: Chao yang ch’u pan sh e. [translation of Journey to the Beginning.]
1973	Den Langa Resain Tillbaka. Vanersborg: Askild and Karnekull.
	Die Lange Revolution. China zveschen Tradition und Zukunft. Stuttgart: Anstalt. [translation of The Long Revolution.]
	La Chine en Marche. Traduit de l’americain. Ed. nouv., augm. d’une postface. Paris: Stock.
	La Longue Revolution. Traduit de l’Americain par Claude-Helene Sibert et Guy-Henry Thurein. Paris: Stock. [translation of The Long Revolution.]
	La Lunga Rivoluzione. Traduzione di Emilio Sarzi Amade. Torino: Guilio Einaudi. [translation of The Long Revolution.]
	Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories. With introduction by Edgar Snow and essay by Nym Wales. Westport, CN: Hyperion Press.
	The Long Revolution. New York: Vintage Books.
	Man ch’ang ti k e ming. [Translated by Ch’en y un-p’ien] Hong kong: Nan y ueh ch’u pan she. [translation of The Long Revolution.]
	Red Star Over China. Revised and enlarged edition. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
	Red Star Over China. 1st printing Evergreen Edition. New York: Grove Press, Inc.
	Ta ho pian. [Translated by Hsin Min] Hong Kong: Nan y ueh ch’u pan sh e. [translation of Red China Today.]
1974	La Larga Revoluci’on. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. [translation of The Long Revolution.]
	Stella Rossa Sulla Cina. A cura di Enrica Collotti Pischel. Traduzione di Renata Pisu. Torino, G. Einaudi. [translation of Red Star Over China.]
	Random Notes on Red China: 1936-1945. Cambridge: Eastern Asia Research Center, Harvard University.
	Roter Stern Uber China. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. [translation of Red Star Over China.]
1976	The Other Side of the River; Red China Today. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
1977	Red Star Over China. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. [Revised and enlarged edition.]
	So Fing Es An - Erfahrungen mit neuen zeiten. Deutsche Verlags - Ansalt. [translation of Journey to the Beginning.]
1978	Alborado de la revoluci’on en Asia. (1st ed. in espanol) Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. [translation of Journey to the Beginning.]
	Red Star Over China. New York: Bantam Books.
1979	Mao Tse-tung i chiu san liu nien t’ung Ssu-no ti t’an hua: kuan yu tzu chi ti ko ming ching li ho Hung chun ch’ang cheng teng wen t’i. Ti 1 pan. Peking: Jen min ch’u pan she: Hsin hua shu tien fa hsing. [translation of selections from Conversations of Mao Tse-tung with Edgar Snow in 1936.]
	Hsi hsing man chi (translated by Tung Le-shan). Ti 1 pan. Peking: Sheng huo, tu shu, hsin chih san lien shu tien: Hsin hua shu tien fa hsing. [translation of Red star over China.]
1983	Huo ti Chung-kuo. (Series: Hsien tai Chung-kuo tuan pien hsiao shuo hsuan.) Ti 1 pan. Chang-sha: Hu-nan jen min chu pan she: Hu-nan sheng hsin hua shu tien fa hsing. [translation of Living China.]
1984	Fu shih chih lu (translated by Sung Chiu, Ḳo Nan, Ḳo Hsiung). Ti 1 pan. Peking: Hsin hua cḥu pan she; Cḥung-cḥing shih: Hsin hua shu tien Cḥung-cḥing fa hsing so fa hsing. [translation of Journey to the Beginning.]
	Ta ho pi an: yu ming chin jih ti hung se Chung-kuo (translated by Hsin Min chieh). Ti 1 pan. Peking: Hsin hua cḥu pan she; Cḥung-cḥing shih: Hsin hua shu tien Cḥung-cḥing fa hsing so fa hsing. [translation of The Other Side of the River.]
	Ssu-no wen chi (translated by Sung Chiu, Ḳo Nan, Ḳo Hsiung, et al.). Ti 1 pan. Peking: Hsin hua cḥu pan she; Cḥung-cḥing shih: Hsin hua shu tien Cḥung-cḥing fa hsing so fa hsing. [translations of selections of Snow’s work.]
	Hung hsing chao yao Chung-kuo: yu ming hsi hsing man chi (translated by Tung Yao-shan). Ti 1 pan. Peking: Hsin hua cḥu pan she; Cḥung-cḥing shih: Hsin hua shu tien Cḥung-cḥing fa hsing so fa hsing. [translation of Red Star Over China.]
	Wei Ya-chou erh chan. Ti 1 pan. Peking: Hsin hua cḥu pan she; Cḥung-cḥing shih: Hsin hua shu tien Cḥung-cḥing fa hsing so fa hsing. [translation of The Battle for Asia.]

 

Works about Edgar Snow

Boorstin, Robert Olsan. "Edgar Snow and America’s Search for a Better China: The Making of Red Star Over China, 1928-38." Bachelor of Arts Thesis, Harvard, 1981.

Chiang, Chien-nung, Tsao Chih-wei. Tsou chin Mao Tse-tung: i ko wai kuo jen yu hsin Chung-kuo yuan shou ti chiao wang. (Meeting Mao Tse-tung: One Foreigner’s Experience in New China). Ti 1 pan. Beijing: tuan chieh chu pan she: Hsin hua shu tien Beijing fa hsing so fa hsing, 1990.

Cḥiu Ḳo-an. Ssu-no tsai Chung-kuo. (Snow in China). Ti 1 pan. Beijing: Sheng huo, tu shu, hsin chih san lien shu tien: Fa hsing Hsin hua shu tien, 1982.

Erickson, Bruce R. "The Reporting of Edgar Snow." Master of Science Thesis, University of Kansas, 1976.

Farnsworth, Robert M. Edgar Snow’s South of the Clouds. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.

________. From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.

Hamilton, John Maxwell. "Edgar Snow: A China Hand in Perspective." Master of Science thesis. Boston University, 1974.

________. "The Rise of Edgar Snow: 1905-1941." Ph.D. Thesis. George Washington University, 1983.

________. Edgar Snow, a Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Liu Li-chun. Chi nien Ai-te-chia Ssu-no. (In Memory of Edgar Snow). Ti 1 pan. Beijing: Hsin hua chu pan she; Chung-ching shih: Ssu-chuan sheng hsin hua shu tien Chung-ching fa hsing so fa hsing, 1984.

Pai Li. Hsîun chao na hsieh pei ṭung chi ti. (Find the People Who Are Wanted). Beijing ti 1 pan. Beijing: Chung-kuo cḥing nien cḥu pan she: Hsin hua shu tien ching hsiao, 1989.

Rand, Peter. China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Salisbury, Harrison Evans.  Heroes of My Time.  New York:  Walker, 1993.

Snow, Helen. My China Years. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1984.

Snow, Lois Wheeler. A Death With Dignity: When the Chinese came. New York: Random House, 1975.

________. A Death With Dignity: When the Chinese came. [Chinese translation.] 1979.

________. Edgar Snow’s China: a personal account of the Chinese Revolution compiled from the writings of Edgar Snow. New York: Random House, 1981.

________. Ssu-no yen chung ti Chung-kuo. Beijing: Chung-kuo hsueh shu chu pan she: Hsin hua shu tien Shang-hai fa hsing so fa hsing, 1982. [translation of Edgar Snow’s China]

Songjiu, Fan.  “Edgar Snow and China.”  Maters of Arts Thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1984.

Thomas, S. Benard. Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China. Berkley: University of California Press, 1996.

Wang Xing. China Remembers Edgar Snow. Distributed by the China Publication Centre (Guoji Shudian). Beijing: Beijing Review, 1982.

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