美国作家爱德加·斯诺在《西行漫记》中记述了这样一段毛泽东自述的少年经历：“……我开始想到长沙去，听说那是个大城市……我很想到长沙一个专门为湘乡人设立的中学。在那一年冬天，我请求一个高等小学教员介绍我到那里去，他允许了……”当时的斯诺先生和后来的中国人并不 Edgar Snow, the American writer, wrote such a piece of Mao’s self-described teenager’s experience in “The Coming West”: “... I started to think of Changsha and I heard that it was a big city ... I really thought that Changsha was a place for Xiang In the winter of that year, I asked a higher primary school teacher to introduce me to where he had allowed ... ”Mr. Snow and then later Chinese did not