Selected Bibliography
- Smedley, Agnes. Daughter of Earth. New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. Reprinted in a shortened version with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley, New York: Coward-McCann, 1935. 1929 edition reprinted New York: Feminist Press, 1973.
- Smedley, Agnes. Chinese Destinies: Sketches of Present-Day China. New York: Vanguard Press, 1933. Reprinted Westport, Conn.: Hyperion, 1977.
- Smedley, Agnes. China’s Red Army Marches. New York: Vanguard Press, 1934. Also published as Red Flood Over China, Moscow and Leningrad: Cooperative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1934. Reprinted Westport, Conn.: Hyperion, 1977.
- Smedley, Agnes. China Fights Back: An American Woman with the Eighth Route Army. New York: Vanguard Press, 1938. Reprinted Westport, Conn.: Hyperion, 1977.
- Smedley, Agnes. Battle Hymn of China. New York: Knopf, 1943.
- Smedley, Agnes. The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1956.
- Smedley, Agnes. Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution. Edited by Jan and Steve MacKinnon, with an introduction. New York: Feminist Press, 1976.
Articles by Agnes Smedley
- “Hsu Mei-ling.” New Republic, 9 April 1930, 219.
- “Five Women of Mukden.” New Republic, 11 June 1930, 99-101.
- “Peasants and Lords in China.” New Republic, 3 September 1930, 69-71.
- “Amongst the Peasants in Kwangtung.” Modern Review 48 (no. 6 December 1930): 683-88.
- “A Chinese Red Army.” New Masses, January 1931, 8.
- “Hsu Mei-ling.” New Republic 62 (9 April 1930): 219.
- “Chinese Athletes.” Modern Review 47 (no. 6 June 1930): 739-41.
- “Five Women of Mukden.” New Republic, 11 June 1930, 99-101.
- “Revolutionary Theatre in China.” New Masses, 3 September 1930, 9.
- “War and Revolution in China.” Modern Review 48 (no. 3 September 1930): 245-49.
- “Peasants and Lords in China.” New Republic, 3 September 1930, 69-71.
- “Amongst the Peasants in Kwangtung.” Modern Review 48 (no. 6 December 1930): 683-88.
- “A Chinese Red Army.” New Masses, January 1931, 8.
- “Students and Communism in China.” Modern Review 49 (no. 2 February 1931): 158-61.
- “Thru [sic] Darkness in China.” New Masses, February 1931, 10.
- “Women in the Philippines.” Modern Review 49 (no. 5 May 1931): 577-79.
- “Shan-Fei, Communist.” New Masses, May 1931, 3.
- “Philippines Sketches.” New Masses, June 1931, 12.
- “Wars of Rival Generals Continue in China.” Modern Review 50 (no. 5 November 1931): 315-17.
- “Death Comes to China.” Modern Review 50 (no. 5 November 1931): 513-18.
- “Birth Control Not Enough for China.” Nation 134 (9 March 1932): 282-83.
- “Horrors at Shanghai.” Nation 134 (30 March 1932): 369-71.
- “Japanese at Shanghai.” Modern Review 51 (no. 4 April 1932): 402-6.
- “Shanghai Thermopylae.” Modern Review 51 (no. 5 May 1932): 501-6.
- “Li Dschen-Sung — Chinese Revolutionist.” New Masses, February 1933, 15.
- “Extracts from Letters — Dr. Yang Chien Assassinated.” New Republic, 26 July 1933, 291.
- “Dirge for a Dead Hero.” Asia 34 (March 1934): 144-47.
- “Shanghai Episode.” New Republic, 13 June 1934, 122-24.
- “Soldiers for China.” Golden Book Magazine 20 (September 1934): 251-57.
- “The Puppet Emperor — A Review of Twilight in the Forbidden City by Sir Reginald Johnson.” Nation 139 (19 September 1934): 332.
- “Truth about the Chinese Reds.” American Mercury 33 (October 1934): 200-210.
- “‘Peace and Order’ in China — A Review of Problems in Pacific, 1933. Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1933.” Nation 140 (2 January 1935): 24.
- “China Betrayed.” China Today 1 (no. 8 May 1935): 144-55.
- “Corrupt Press in China.” Nation 141 (3 July 1935): 8-10.
- “When the Radicals Quarrel — Agnes Smedley’s Reply.” China Weekly Review, 31 August 1935, 488.
- “China’s Rulers Ride the Tiger.” China Today 2 (no. 8 May 1936): 148-50.
- “Vignettes from China.” Partisan Review 3 (no. 6 October 1936): 26-28.
Books About Smedley and China During the 1930s
- Isaacs, Harold. The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. 2d rev. ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961.
- MacKinnon, Janice and Stephen. Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
- MacKinnon, Stephen and Oris Friesen, ed. China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
- Milton, Joyce. A Friend to China. New York: Hastings House, 1980.
- Nekola, Charlotte and Paula Rabinowitz. Writing Red: An Anthology of American Woman Writers, 1930-1940. New York: Feminist Press, 1987.
- Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. 1st rev. and enl. ed. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1973.
- Strong, Anna Louise. China’s Millions: The Revolutionary Struggles from 1927 to 1935. New York: Knight Publishing, 1935.