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050 00 $aPN4874.S5715$bT46 1996
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100 1 $aThomas, S. Bernard,$d1921-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83185121
245 10 $aSeason of high adventure :$bEdgar Snow in China /$cS. Bernard Thomas.
246 30 $aEdgar Snow in China
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c1996.
263 $a9606
300 $axviii, 416 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A philip E. Lilienthal book."
504 $aIncludes bliliographical references (p. 387-398) and index.
520 $aIn 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and developed close friendships with China's emerging revolutionary leaders. His 1938 classic, Red Star Over China, strongly influenced American views of the Chinese Communists and is still in print nearly sixty years later. S.
520 8 $aBernard Thomas's sensitive biography of Edgar Snow emphasizes the journalist's China experience and shows how he became involved in events along with reporting them. An epilogue takes up Snow's cold war travails and his often frustrating "bridge-building" efforts between China and the United States in the final decade of his life.
600 10 $aSnow, Edgar,$d1905-1972.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50014925
650 0 $aForeign correspondents$zChina$vBiography.
650 0 $aForeign correspondents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104013
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$y1937-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024118
852 00 $beal$hPN4874.S5715$iT46 1996