<正>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 Prize-winning