Red Star Over China
After he returned to Beiping in the fall, he wrote frantically. First he published a short account in "China Weekly Review", then a series of publications in Chinese. "Red Star Over China", published first in London in 1937, was given credit for introducing both Chinese and foreign readers not so much to the Communist Party, which was reasonably well known, but to Mao Zedong. Mao was not, as had been reported, dead, and Snow reported that Mao was a political reformer, not the purely military or radical revolutionary that he had been during the 1920s.