红星照耀中国 Red Star over China（导读注释版）

1936年，埃德加•斯诺带着一系列关于红色中国的疑问，不顾个人安危前往陕甘宁边区，寻求红色政权的真相。他凭着一纸介绍信，一路奔波到达当时的红色首都保安，先后采访了周恩来、毛泽东、林祖涵、刘志丹、彭德怀等人，并从红军战士的口中间接了解到朱德、贺龙等人的信息。在与红军战士同吃共住四个月后，斯诺依依不舍地离开“红区”，将自己在陕北苏区的所见所闻汇成一篇真实的新闻报道——《红星照耀中国》，即《西行漫记》。本书共有十二章，每章分为3~6个小节不等。斯诺在书中描绘了我们所熟知的中国革命大事件——国民革命、国共合作、长征等，同时凭借当时特殊的时代环境得以留下珍贵的采访记录和逸闻趣事，让我们能一感当年革命领导人在战火中的烟火气。这本承载历史使命的书籍第一次向全国，乃至全世界诠释了中国红色革命的原因和目的，介绍了中国共产党的基本政策、经济制度和生产生活等情况，生动形象地再现了毛泽东、周恩来、朱德和刘志丹等革命领导人和无数红军战士、农民、工人和知识分子在艰苦斗争岁月中的精神风貌。它打破了当时国民党和一些西方媒体对中国红色革命的歪曲与毁谤，指引了无数青年人走上了革命道路，更让全世界约略窥知红军不可征服的战斗精神和改变世界的热情与力量。

埃德加•斯诺（Edgar Snow，1905—1972），美国著名记者， 1928年以特约记者身份来华，1936年6月不顾个人安危前往陕甘宁边区，寻求红色政权的真相。在延安，斯诺与红军战士共吃穿，深入了解了苏区的生活，并将其调查与采访用真实的笔触写入《红星照耀中国》(即《西行漫记》)中。新中国成立后，斯诺先后三次访华，为增进中美两国人民的友谊作出了巨大贡献。

总序

Series Preface

Preface

PART ONE: IN SEARCH OF RED CHINA

1. Some Unanswered Questions

2. Slow Train to “Western Peace”

3. Some Han Bronzes

4. Through Red Gates

PART TWO: THE ROAD TO THE RED CAPITAL

1. Chased by White Bandits

2. The Insurrectionist

3. Something About Ho Lung

4. Red Companions

PART THREE: IN “DEFENDED PEACE”

1. Soviet Strong Man

2. Basic Communist Policies

3. On War with Japan

4. $2,000,000 in Heads

5. Red Theater

PART FOUR: GENESIS OF A COMMUNIST

1. Childhood

2. Days in Changsha

3. Prelude to Revolution

4. The Nationalist Period

5. The Soviet Movement

6. Growth of the Red Army

PART FIVE: THE LONG MARCH

1. The Fifth Campaign

2. A Nation Emigrates

3. The Heroes of Tatu

4. Across the Grasslands

PART SIX: RED STAR IN THE NORTHWEST

1. The Shensi Soviets: Beginnings

2. Death and Taxes

3. Soviet Society

4. Anatomy of Money

5. Life Begins at Fifty!

PART SEVEN: EN ROUTE TO THE FRONT

1. Conversation with Red Peasants

2. Soviet Industries

3. “They Sing Too Much”

PART EIGHT: WITH THE RED ARMY

1. The “Real” Red Army

2. Impression of P’eng Teh-huai

3. Why Is a Red?

4. Tactics of Partisan Warfare

5. Life of the Red Warrior

6. Session in Politics

PART NINE: WITH THE RED ARMY (Continued)

1. Hsu Hai-tung, the Red Potter

2. Class War in China

3. Moslem and Marxist

PART TEN: WAR AND PEACE

1. More About Horses

2. “Little Red Devils”

3. United Front in Action

4. Concerning Chu The

PART ELEVEN: BACK TO PAO AN

1. Casuals of the Road

2. Life in Pao An

3. The Russian Influence

4. Chinese Communism and the Comintern

5. That Foreign Brain Trust

6. Farewell to Red China

PART TWELVE: WHITE WORLD AGAIN

1. A Preface to Mutiny

2. The Generalissimo Is Arrested 

3. Chiang, Chang and the Reds

4. “Point Counter Point”

5. Auld Lang Syne?

6. Red Horizons

Epilogue, 1944

APPENDICES

Abbreviations

Further Interviews with Mao Tse-tung