The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh is a masterpiece of American female journalist Agnes Smedley. In 1937, when she learned that the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army under the leadership of Mao Zedong had successfully arrived at northern Shaanxi after the Long March, she went to the Northern Shaanxi Soviet Area to get first hand information about the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Workers and Peasants' Red Army led by the CPC. Agnes Smedley arrived at Yan'an in March that year and was welcomed by the Central Committee of the CPC and the Red Army officers and men. She interviewed many leaders of the CPC and Red Army generals including Mao Zedong and Zhu De, and wrote the book The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh.

　　In her book, Agnes Smedley devoted a special chapter to the Long March, in which she spoke highly of the Long March, saying that "neither facts nor figures, nor the names of a hundred rivers and mountains, can ever explain the historical significance of the Long March of the Red Army. Nor can they describe the tenacity and determination nor the suffering of the hundred thousand men who took part in it." She noted that the Long March was an epic in the history of revolutionary wars, but that's not all of it. She predicated with confidence that though the Long March had ended, but the Red Army continued to make history.