''China Fights Back: An American Woman With the Eighth Route Army'' was a 1938 book by Agnes Smedley. It was a diary of her time with the

Chinese Communist The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, was a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party, nominally within the structure of the Chinese ...

in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Released in the United States and Great Britain, it was much less successful than her earlier China books.Price, Ruth. The Lives of Agnes Smedley. Oxford University Press 2005. Page 330. Smedley included some of the same material in a later book, ''

Battle Hymn of China ''Battle Hymn of China'', by Agnes Smedley. Also published as ''China Correspondent''. This book is a first-hand account of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War, from the viewpoint of a left-wing US woman who tried sharing the lives of ...

'', which did much better.

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1938 non-fiction books Books about China Books about communism Second Sino-Japanese War {{US-bio-book-stub