| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in Revolutionary China. By Kelly Ann Long. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xxiv, 237 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-847-9.)

A well-researched book for "old China hands," Helen Foster Snow is a biography of the wife of Edgar Snow, the author of Red Star over China (1938), focusing on her years as a journalist in China from 1931–1940. Helen Foster grew up in depression-era Utah, ventured to Shanghai as a reporter for the Seattle Star, and at twenty-five married Edgar Snow, a correspondent for the Consolidated Press Association. She wrote stories on Shanghai's flood of 1931, foreigners' lives in the International Settlement, student demonstrations after the Japanese takeover of Manchuria, the rise of Yuan Shikai, and the subsequent turmoil between the Guomindang and the Chinese Communist party (CCP). The Snows moved to Peking in 1933 and associated with Yanjing University. They supported student organizations that advocated repelling Japanese aggression and patriotic collaboration between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. Helen Snow saw the value of student idealism, becoming aware of parallels between the Nationalists and Italian Fascists, and wrote articles of protest. The Snows' home became a center of activism that attracted foreign press journalists, and they befriended left-wing writers such as Lu Xun, political figures such as Dr. Sun Yat-sen's widow, Song Qingling, and student leaders who were "anti-Fascist" and "anti-Japanese."

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