Talk:Edgar Snow

message: The article states that half of the remains of Snow are at Peking University, Beijing. And the other half? Dr. Dan (talk) 04:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the Rest of Him 

message: I tried to build evaluations into the article and present a range of them.
"Dupe" is unsourced as far as I can tell. Apologies if I missed it, but I checked Chang/Halliday Unknown Mao pp. 7, 52, 106, 117, 153, 159, 191-192, 194, 195, 204, 219-20, 231, 233, 240, 323-24, 337, and I don't see the word "dupe." Would it be ok to use their word, "American spokesman" (p. 106)? They also make clear that Snow used other material in addition to interviews, though they do charge that he placed too much weight on them. The issue of the Long March is discussed in Red Star Over China. ch (talk) 06:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evaluating SNow? 

message: Crackpot is perhaps a bit harsh: see this review (from the Claremont Institute) by Arthur Waldron www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308889/posts --link idiotically blacklisted.--Radh (talk) 08:06, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lee Feigon 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Edgar Snow's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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From Communism: 
From Mao Zedong: ; 
From Twain–Ament indemnities controversy: Bickers & Tiedemann, Boxers, 104.
From Second Sino-Japanese War: Chung Wu Taipei "History of the Sino-Japanese war (1937–1945)" 1972 pp 565
From Japanese resistance to the Empire of Japan in World War II: Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before ... By Yukiko Koshiro Chapter 3 Page 100
From Wataru Kaji: From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941 By Robert M. Farnsworth Page 326 -327
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 01:36, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Edgar Snow]] 

message: In the last paragraph of page 12 in his introduction to Red Star Over China, Fairbank states: "in 1936 the Chinese Communists were known generally as 'Red Bandits', and no Western observer had had direct with their leadership or reported on it to the outside world." Is there a source that contradicts this? If there is, I don't think it is cited in the article.Ferox Seneca (talk) 03:13, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi  -- apologies! I should have made clear that I didn't have a problem so much with the general idea as much as with the way that Fairbank put it, which was uncharacteristically lacking in nuance. There had been Western contact with CCP leaders before the Long March, and in fact a number of Westerners had a pretty good grasp of the nature of the movement, but things were changing pretty quickly. There's been a lot of new information about Snow, Mao, and the CCP since Fairbank wrote in 1968,  and lots of points of view have changed, so this Preface is not now the best source. So I hope it was ok for me to add the Brady reference instead. There's more detail there if anyone wants it (though the online version of the book lacks p. 44). She claims that Red Star was a "piece of conscious propaganda" (p. 46) but I don't think that this article is the place to debate that claim. ch (talk) 03:45, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes -- well put. Brady also argues persuasivley (to me) that Mao used Snow to promote his position in the party, and that Mao was not allowed to speak freely but had to have clearance from party leaders for what he said, which was carefully scripted. But as I said, it's hard to strike the right balance for a Wikipedia article. ch (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: First reporter to interview Mao

message: We've just had an attempt at Nanking Massacre denial, eliminating Edgar Snow's fairly minor role in reporting this.  I restored the well-established facts, which are spelt out in the main article.
--GwydionM (talk) 11:18, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we all just stop typing "Nanking" ? Please ? There are about three people in the entire world who properly pronounce that stupid Wade-Giles garbage. For everyone else, "nanjing" looks how the name of the city sounds. Sounds now, and has sounded for I dunno, the past thousand years or so ? N-A-N-J-I-N-G. Nan as in "south" and "jing" as in "capital". 南京 Why Mssrs Wade and Giles thought that using a k for a j sound was smart, I will never understand.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.160.68.16 (talk) 16:47, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The point is much the same, but "Nanking" is not Wade-Giles, but Chinese postal romanization, as are almost all the old place names. Wade-Giles would be "Nan-ching." ch (talk) 05:05, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nanjing Massacre 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: He spoke fairly good Chinese, but needed a translator for his long talk with Mao.  He also never published any translation of a work in Chinese, as far as I know. GwydionM (talk) 08:46, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a translator 

message: Has anyone got any information on this? Fidel-Lenin (talk) 20:26, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there any copies of Far eastern front available online? does this book even exist?