Viewpoint
02.07.17

Can the New U.S. Ambassador to China See Xi Jinping for Who He Really Is?

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds confirmation hearings on Terry Branstad’s nomination to be Ambassador to China, the Iowa Governor is sure to be asked about the positions of the president who nominated him. I hope...

My First Trip
05.14.11

Let the Devil Take the Hindmost

Lois Snow

China became part of my life when I met and married Edgar Snow. I had read Red Star Over China long before I knew the author but the years that followed were largely devoted to my acting career in New York. China was rather remote from...

The NYRB China Archive
04.27.89

Mao and Snow

John K. Fairbank & Jonathan Mirsky
from New York Review of Books

In response to:

Message from Mao from the February 16, 1989 issue

To the Editors:

Edgar Snow was...

The NYRB China Archive
02.16.89

Message from Mao

Jonathan Mirsky
from New York Review of Books

In Kansas City, Missouri, the family of Edgar Snow, whose Red Star Over China was to introduce Mao Zedong to the world, employed a black washerwoman, Crazy Mary, who hated one of her Chinese competitors. To enrage the man she taught...