SNOW’S UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS——In Communicating to the World About the Chinese Revolution,in Promoting Sino-US Understanding and Better Ties

• 来源期刊: 友声：英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: visited REVOLUTION Edgar COMMUNICATING BIRTHDAY au
• 年，卷（期）: 2006,（2）
• 页码范围: 47-52
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: D822.2

摘要

【正】We gather here today to mark the 100th birthday of our genuine and esteemed friend Edgar Snow. This year also coincides with the 60th anniversary of the victory of the World’s Anti-Fascist War as well as the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China. It is against this historical background that I would like to talk about Edgar Snow’s unique contribution of communicating to the world about the Chinese revolution. Edgar Snow is the most widely read and influential American journalist on 20th century China. He was the first American journalist who in 1936 risked his life and broke through the Kuomintang blockade visited Bao’an in the Northwest and gave the first authentic account of