How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945, is a history book written by Gao Hua and published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in 2000.

It documents the origins and consequences of the Yan'an Rectification Movement as well as the ascendance of Mao Zedong as the paramount leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Central Committee delegation in Jiangxi declared the Futian incident counterrevolutionary, dismissed Xiang Ying's criticisms of the campaign, and resumed elimination of the Anti-Bolshevik League.

[6]: 163  Initially thwarted by Wang's alliance with Zhou Enlai, Mao soon recovered: He ordered military leaders such as Zhu De and Peng Dehuai to lead the Eighth Route Army deep into Northern China to establish revolutionary base areas, resulting in the rapid expansion of CCP forces,[note 3] while the KMT defended Wuhan against Japan and lost.

[6]: 154  To obtain confessions, schools, hospitals, and other work units strongarmed their targets with sleep and food deprivation, round-the-clock interrogation, 24 methods of torture, and fake executions.

[2]: 899  Gao cites Hu Qiaomu's memoir, which claimed that 15,000 secret agents were unearthed in Yan'an, a city with around 7,000 local residents and 30,000 CCP cadres in the 1940s.

According to Chang, contemporary scholars who wrote positively of the CCP and Mao, such as Edgar Snow, were "sold a bill of goods", and Gao's book renders their work obsolete.

[7] French historian Lucien Bianco states that Gao's case study renews scholarly understanding of the previously misunderstood Yan'an Rectification Movement.

[6] Jan Kiely, Professor of China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, states that "this English version should finally demolish, for a global audience, whatever remains of the Edgar Snowian mythology of the CCP’s original moment of purity in Yan'an.

[9] Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, Joseph W. Esherick, faults Gao for speculating on Mao's motivations rather than using direct sources.

[4]: 10  Kiely says the Gao's work is "imbricated with Maoist terminology" and has a scope limited to the top levels of the CCP due to his reliance on Party documents.