Sarah Paine

And he believed that really he needed to accommodate or put the Japanese aside, fight the communists, get rid of them.

And then he's hoping the United States will get in or something that then he can deal the Japanese separately.

uh but he got faced so much popular pressure that that's when he go the shion incident takes place in the end of 36 where he agrees to form the second united front because he realizes he'll be overthrown by a popular uh hatred of the japanese thinking they have to fight the japanese so he didn't have his choices on military strategies at the end there

Oh, I don't know about the other guy, but I do know about Edgar Snow.

So Edgar Snow is in the Depression.

He's from the Midwest.

He was bored.

Young man.

He wants an adventure.

So he goes off to China.

So this is typical.

And he's in these cities where he's seeing nationalist corruption, and it's evident there.

And Mao is looking for a foreign journalist.

There'd been a guy, Jack Reed, who'd written however many days of the Russian Revolution, back during the Russian Revolution, who'd really popularized it, I suspect, but I don't know, that Mao probably needed his own Jack Reed.

And Edgar Snow seemed the perfect guy, because he's a very good writer.

You want someone who can write well, and he's young and naive.

So what was it?

Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of China, is married to one of the Sung sisters.

Another one of the Sung sisters is married...

to Chiang Kai-shek, and there's a third one who's married to a banker.