Red Crag

Red Crag (Chinese: 红岩; pinyin: Hóngyán) was a 1961 novel based partly on fact by Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, who were former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan. It was set in Chongqing during the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and featured underground communist agents under the command of Zhou Enlai fighting an espionage battle against the Kuomintang.

The novel contained a highly negative portrayal for the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, as responsible for the running prisons jailing communists and other political dissidents, although in reality they were actually run by the KMT secret police service BIS, and had no American involvement. The novel features Jiang Zhuyun, the real life counterpart of Sister Jiang.

Xujun Eberlein wrote in The Atlantic that "The novel played a critical role in the heroism culture of the Mao era."

The book includes a poem that was attributed to, but was not written by, Chen Ran.