PART ONE: SHANGHAI 17
1. Arrival in Shanghai, 1931 19
2. Ming at the Chocolate Shop 24
Excerpt from a Letter, August 30,1931 35
3. Foreign Correspondent 39
Excerpts from Letters, October and November, 1931 46
4. My First War 48
Excerpt from a Letter, Winter 1932 54
5. Nowhere Else on Earth 55
Excerpt from a Letter, Spring 1932 62
6. The Shanghai Mind 64
Excerpt from a Letter, Summer 1932 69
7. When I Married Mr. Snow 71
PART TWO: PEKING 83
8. Arrival in Peking, 1933 85
9. A Peking Courtyard 89
10. The Peking Mystique 94
11. Teilhard de Chardin 100
12. Dona Quixote 107
13. Art, Literature, and Revolution 113
14. Year’s End 122
15. Village Life in China 129
16. Fascism and Marxism 135
17. Peitaiho: Missionaries by the Yellow Sea 141
18. Our Haunted House Near the Fox Tower 148
19. The December 9th Student Movement, 1935 154
20. Action 163
21. James Bertram, Rhodes Scholar From New Zealand 175
22. Edgar Snow Goes to See the “Red Star Over China” 178
23. Interlude 184
24. My First Trip to the Northwest, 1936 188
25. Red Star Over China－Edgar Snow’s Return, October 1936 197
26. The Sian Incident, December 12, 1936 204
27. Anticlimax at Christmas 216
28. We Start a New Magazine Called democracy 220
PART THREE: YENAN 229
29. Inside Red China－My Trip to Yenan, 1937 231
30. Sian 234
31. Conspiracy 241
32. A Narrow Escape 248
33. Arrival at the Red Front 257
34. A Room in the Old Walled City 260
35. Mao Tse-tung, Chu The, and Chou En-lai 265
36. Four Months in Yenan 274
37. Ten Days on the Road 280
38. Reunion in Sian 287
PART FOUR: GUNGHO 295
39. Farewell to Peking 297
40. Gung Ho: We Start the Industrial Cooperatives 299
41. Hong Kong 308
42. A Time for Planting Mustard Seeds 312
43. Farewell to Asia 322
Epilogue 328
Glossary 331
Key to Pinyin Spelling 333
Index 337