Volume 36, Number 2 · February 16, 1989
Message from Mao
By Jonathan Mirsky
Edgar Snow: A Biography
by John Maxwell Hamilton
Indiana University Press, 343 pp., $25.00
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 young Edgar to recite:
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