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Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in n I Revolutionary China tells the story of a remarkable woman born in rural Utah in 1907, who lived in China during the 1930s and became an important author, a lifelong humanitarian, and a bridge- builder between the United States and China. As Kelly Ann Long recounts in this engaging biography, Helen Foster Snow immersed herself in the social and political currents of a nation in turmoil. After marrying renowned journalist Edgar Snow, she developed her own writing talents. Her writing provided an important perspective on emerging events in China as that nation was wracked by Japanese invasion, the outbreak of World War II, and a con¬ tinuing civil war. She supported the December Ninth Movement of 1935, broke boundaries to enter communist Yenan in 1937, and helped initiate the "gung ho" Chinese Industrial Coopera¬ tive movement. Helen Foster Snow wrote about the people and events in China's remote communist territories during an impor¬ tant era. She relayed detailed portraits of female communist leaders and famous figures such as Mao Zedong and Zhu De, as well as common people struggling to survive in a period of increasing turmoil. Her informed, compassionate depictions built a bridge linking Ameri¬ can interest to the welfare of the Chinese. Long's account recovers the story of a controversial and important commenta¬ tor on a critical period in U.S.-China relations and in Chinese history. ■ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from The Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/hellenfostersnowOOkell HELEN FOSTER SNOW AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN REVOLUTIONARY CHINA KELLY ANN LONG University Press of Colorado To my family and in memory of my parents, Ike and Ginny Long © 2006 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 206C Boulder, Colorado 80303 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of the Association of American University Presses. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colo¬ rado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Ma¬ terials. ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Long, Kelly Ann, 1957- Helen Foster Snow : an American woman in revolutionary China / Kelly Ann Long, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-87081-847-9 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-87081-847-3 (alk. paper) 1. Snow, Flelen Foster, 1907-1997.2. Journalists—United States—Biography. 3. Ameri¬ cans—China—Biography. I. Title. PN4874.S5717L66 2006 070292—dc22 [B] 2006017538 Design by Daniel Pratt 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Maps provided by permission of Square One Publishing. All photographs included in this book are provided courtesy of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Flarold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.