Bøger af Agnes Smedley

""The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh"" is a biography written by Agnes Smedley about the life of Chu Teh, a prominent Chinese Communist military leader during the Chinese Civil War and the early years of the People's Republic of China. The book chronicles Chu Teh's life from his childhood in a rural village to his rise to power as a military commander and political figure in the Communist Party. Smedley provides a detailed account of Chu Teh's military campaigns, including his leadership in the Long March and the establishment of the Red Army. The book also explores Chu Teh's personal life, including his relationships with his family, fellow revolutionaries, and Mao Zedong. Through extensive research and interviews with Chu Teh's colleagues and family members, Smedley offers a comprehensive portrait of a complex and influential figure in modern Chinese history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth, worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 pieces—all out of print and most unavailable even in public libraries—are based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton commune, of the silk workers of Canton whose solidarity earns them the charge of lesbianism, and of Mother Tsai, a 60-year-old peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den.

2022 Reprint of the 1956 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A manuscript of this book was left by Miss Smedley at the time of her death in England in 1950. It has the greatest value both for historians and for the general reader. Miss Smedley spent many evenings over a period of years with Teh, probing his life history, recording his reminiscences and answers to her questions. As a biography of the leader of the Chinese Red Army, therefore, this book is and will remain unique, a priceless documentary source for all historians of the Chinese Revolution, present and future.But it is much more than that. By skillfully weaving the story of Chu Teh into the context of Chinese social and political development, Miss Smedley has succeeded in making modern Chinese history come alive as no other author has done. The drama of the desperately poor peasant boy from a remote region of China who became one of the two principal organizers and guiding spirits of one of the greatest revolutions of all time: this is Miss Smedley's theme, and she handles it superbly. Moreover, thanks to Chu Teh's vivid childhood recollections, we have here an unsurpassed picture of Chinese peasant life and how it gave rise to the movement which finally brought regeneration to nearly a quarter of the human race. Few Americans know China and its people as well as Agnes Smedley did. Her career as correspondent in China started in 1929 when she wrote for the Frankfurter Zeitung and later for the Manchester Guardian. When the Japanese invaded China, Miss medley went to the front with the Chinese Eighth Route Army and later became a field member of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps in the war zones. She spent two years on the battleground in China, covering thousands of miles of that vast country.She returned to the United States shortly before Pearl Harbor and here completed the first draft of The Great Road. She was on her way back to her beloved China when she died.

This gritty, sweeping novel recreates the life story of an American working-class woman and burgeoning political activist in the early 20th century.