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Edgar snow had many long talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and collected the first-hand information of the 25,000-mile Long March. In addition, he also conducted on-the-spot investigations, went deep into the Red Army soldiers and ordinary people, and made extensive and in-depth investigations on the military and civilian life, local political reform, people's customs and habits, and industrial and agricultural production in the base areas.
During the four-month interview, he wrote 14 notebooks. At the end of 10, Si Nuo returned to Beiping from northern Shaanxi with his interview materials, films and photos. After several months of writing, documentary literature named Red Star Shines in China in English and Red Star Shines in China or China in Chinese was finally born.