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Mao's Rise To Power: To What Extent Did Mao Zedong Utilize Edgar Snow’S Red Star Over China To Consolidate Power?, Dorothy Zhang
Mao's Rise To Power: To What Extent Did Mao Zedong Utilize Edgar Snow’S Red Star Over China To Consolidate Power?, Dorothy Zhang
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Mao Zedong's rise to power has been viewed through many lenses, such as through the downfall of the Kuomintang or through his opportunism, but this paper examines: to what extent did Mao utilize Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China to consolidate power? This question is answered by looking at Snow’s work, other historians' view of Snow's work, and reviews of Red Star when the book was first released in 1937. Snow's work was used to determine his aims in interviewing Mao and whether he intended to be a "mouthpiece" for Mao. Other historians' views were used to research Mao's previous …