How does Snow's "Red Star Shines Over China" evaluate the Long March?

Summary of the life of the soldiers in "Red Star Shines on the Chinese Red Army":

Abroad, Chinese soldiers have a very bad reputation. Many people believed that their guns were mainly decorative, and that the only battles they fought were fought with opium pipes; if there was a rifle exchange, it was agreed in advance and fired into the air; the outcome of the battle was decided with silver coins, and the soldiers were paid with opium. .

For most armies in the past, this statement was partially true, but now the well-equipped first-class Chinese soldiers (the same is true for the Red Army and the White Army) are no longer a joke in the parody , this will be seen by the whole world soon. China's failure to repulse the Japanese attack is not a criterion of judgment: except for a resistance in Shanghai that was later undermined, there has been no serious resistance to date.

China's failure to repulse the Japanese attack is not a criterion: except for a resistance in Shanghai that was later undermined, no serious resistance has yet been mounted.

China still has a lot of farcical armies, but in recent years, a new breed of Chinese warriors has emerged that will soon replace those old warriors. Civil war, especially the class war between the Red Army and the White Army, has always been costly and often fought fiercely and fiercely, leaving no room for forgiveness or compromise on either side.

China's ten years of civil strife, if nothing else, has at least established a core of combat forces and military minds experienced in the use of modern technology and tactics, which will soon be established A powerful army can no longer be regarded as a silver spearhead.

Extended information:

"Red Star Shining on China" not only achieved great success in a political sense, but also became a model for similar works in terms of the artistic techniques of reportage creation. The characterization, environment description, and narrative perspective are almost superb.

After the Chinese translation of "Red Star Shines Over China" was published, it also had a huge response in China. Thousands of Chinese young people have embarked on the road of revolution because of reading "Red Star Shines Over China".

In October 1937, "Red Star Shines on China" was first published in the United Kingdom. It caused a sensation around the world as soon as it came out. In the first few weeks of its publication in London, it was reprinted seven times in a row and sold more than 100,000 copies. World public opinion generally believes that this is a masterpiece, marking a new era in the West's understanding of China.

A survey by American historian Harold Isaacs shows that as the main source of Americans' impressions of the Chinese, "Red Star Over China" is second only to Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth".

"The Good Earth" enabled Americans to truly understand the Chinese people for the first time, while "Red Star Shines on China" enabled Westerners to understand the real life of Chinese Communists. In a sense, a generation of Americans got their knowledge of the Chinese Communists from Snow.

In "Red Star Shines on China", Snow explores the background of the Chinese revolution and the reasons for its development. He judged that due to the propaganda and specific actions of the Communist Party of China, the poor and oppressed had new ideas about the country, society and individuals, and had new beliefs that must be acted upon.

Because of this ideological arm, a group of young people were able to carry out a mass struggle against the Kuomintang's rule for ten years. He expressed his admiration for the Long March, asserted that the Long March was actually a strategic retreat, and praised the Long March as a heroic epic and an unparalleled expedition in modern history.

Snow declared to the world with undoubted facts: The Communist Party of China and the revolutionary cause led by it are like a shining red star that not only shines in northwest China, but will surely shine in all of China. , illuminating the whole world.