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Season of high adventure : Edgar Snow in China

by S. Bernard Thomas

A biography of the journalist who documented the Chinese Communist revolution during thirteen years in China. The text explores his influential reporting and his later role as a diplomatic intermediary between the United States and China.

Accession 19823 ISBN 0520202767 Publisher University of California Press
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