Abstract: Before and after the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, journalists visiting Shaanbei showed the diverse images of red Shaanbei (northern Shaanxi Province) from their own perspectives. By combing through the writings of American, Chinese, and Soviet journalists Edgar Snow, Chen Xuezhao, and Roman Kálmán on their visits to Shaanbei, it can be found that Snow, Chen and Kálmán were concerned with the independence of the revolution and modernization, the independence of the subject’s personality and life, and the independence of China’s nation-state. These visits were therefore inevitable. By comparing the liberated areas with those controlled by the government of the Republic of China (1912-1949), the journalists not only showed the necessary significance of Shaanbei to the construction of the Chinese nation-state, bust also improved the cognition, reshaped the life, and accumulated the experience in their visits. With international perspectives, the journalists discovered Shaanbei’s efforts to fight for national liberation, escape from otherness, and merge into the world landscape from the perspectives of modern construction, individual dignity, cosmopolitanism and nationhood. Though originating from different experience, their visits presented a diverse but unified face of Shaanbei.

Key words: image of Shaanbei (northern Shaanxi Province), Edgar Snow, Chen Xuezhao, Roman Kálmán