Red Star Over China, a 1937 book by Edgar Snow, is an account of the Communist Party of China that was written when it was a guerrilla army and still obscure to Westerners.

Along with Pearl S. Bucks The Good Earth (1931), it was the most influential book on Western understanding of China as well as the most influential book on Western sympathy for Red China in the 1930s.^[2]

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(西行漫記》，原名《紅星照耀中國》（：Red Star Over China），是美國著名記者埃德加·斯諾的名著，向西方讀者描述了陌生的還處於游擊隊狀態的中國共產黨的情況。同賽珍珠的《大地》一起，是1930年代向西方讀者介紹中國和喚起他們的同情的最有影響力的作品。

在《西行漫記》中，埃德加·斯諾講述了1936年夏秋他訪問中國紅軍的經歷。通過對毛澤東還有其它當時中國共產黨高級領導人的採訪，斯諾生動的講述了長征^]，同時還有包括毛澤東、周恩來、彭德懷、林彪等多位領導人的傳記.

193707月，史諾在北京寫成30萬字的《紅星照耀中國》（Red Star Over China）。同年10月該書在英國倫敦出版。1938年1月，美國藍燈書屋再次出版該書，2月，中譯本在做了少量增刪後改名為《西行漫記》在上海出版。引起極大轟動，成為暢銷一時的書。

 愛德加 P. 史諾（英語：Edgar Snow，1905年7月11日－1972年2月15日），美國記者，因其在中國革命期間著作而聞名。他被認為是第一個參訪中共領導人毛澤東的西方記者。1937年的《西行漫記》是史諾最為著名的出版物，該書紀錄了從中共創建至1930年期間的中國共產主義運動。1936年6月到10月，經宋慶齡介紹，在中共地下組織的幫助下，史諾訪問陝甘寧邊區並採訪了毛澤東、彭德懷、徐海東、左權、聶榮臻、程子華等紅軍領導人，成為第一個採訪邊區的西方記者。同年7月，史諾編譯的中國現代作家短篇小說選集《活的中國》（Living China）在英國出版。11月14日、21日《密勒氏評論報》首先發表了他的採訪文章：《與共產黨領袖毛澤東的會見》和由他拍攝的毛澤東頭戴有紅五角星的八角軍帽的照片（後來成為經典）。

1972年2月15日，史諾因胰腺癌病逝於日內瓦，享年66歲。就在同一周美國總統尼克森訪問了中國，史諾未能活著看到兩國關係正常化。依其遺囑，一部分骨灰葬於原燕京大學（併入北京大學）未名湖畔。
 

 Edgar Parks Snow (17 July 1905 – 15 February 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He was the first western journalist to give a full account of the history of the Chinese Communist Party following the Long March, and he was also the first western journalist to interview many of its leaders, including Mao Zedong. He is best known for his book, Red Star Over China (1937), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.

In June 1936, Snow left Beiping with a letter of introduction from Soong Ching-ling (who was a politically important supporter of the Communists) and arrived at Xian. The Nationalist army was formally blockading areas controlled by the Communists, but the Manchurian army soldiers stationed in Xian wanted to work with the Communists in order to oppose the Japanese, and it allowed Snow to enter. Snow was accompanied on the journey by George Hatem (a friend of Agnes Smedley), who had written about the Chinese communists, but whose presence was kept secret for many years. Snow had been preparing to write a book about the Communist movement in China for several years, and he had even signed a contract at one point. However, his most important contribution was the interviews that he had conducted with the top leaders of the party. When Snow wrote, there were no reliable reports reaching the West about what was going on in the Communist-controlled areas. Other writers, such as Agnes Smedley, had written in some detail about the Chinese Communists before the Long March, but none of these writers had ever visited them or even conducted first-hand interviews with the new leadership which had emerged during the Long March

 愛德加 P. 史諾他所寫作的紅星照耀中國,在台灣被中國國民黨查封是為禁書,永遠不得印行,出售及研究,但是對於共產黨與國民黨而言,這樣一來的經典之作,提供許多寶貴真實的資料,因此在中國共產黨中央黨部文化工作部及中國國民黨文化組織工作部,都列入為一級黨史研究,凡是相關人士,必須提出申請,始得借閱,也必須提出閱讀心得報告.

 《西行漫記》是一部文筆優美的紀實性很強的報道性作品。作者真實記錄了自1936年6月至10月在我國西北革命根據地（以延安為中心的陝甘寧邊區）進行實地采訪的所見所聞。向全世界真實報道了中國和中國工農紅軍以及許多紅軍領袖、紅軍將領的情況。毛澤東和周恩來等是斯諾筆下最具代表性的人物形象。