摘要
In 1997,Helen Foster Snow passed away at the age of 90 in Connecticut,the United States. HELEN spent some 12 years in China, mostly in the 1930s.She first arrived in Shanghai in August 1931.The city,then the fifth largest port in the world,was to have been the first stop in her travels around the world in search of adventure and gather- ing materials for a book.She had already read Pearl Buck's classic Pulitzer
HELEN spent some 12 years in mostly 1930s. China, in the She first arrived in Shanghai in August 1931. The city, then the fifth largest port in the world, was to have been the first stop in her travels around the world in search of adventure and gathering materials for a book. She had already read Pearl Buck＇s classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a Chinese farmer, The Good Earth. Beyond that, however, she knew little about China. She was the young ＂all-American girl＂ who even brought along her own golf bag and tennis racket. But she was anxious to learn. She had a sense of justice and strongly felt the natural and historic friend- ship between the Chinese and American peoples. Eager to be a writer, she first worked at secretarial jobs in Shanghai. There she met and married American journalist Edgar Snow.
