Helen Foster Snow. Witness to revolution

Description

Helen Foster Snow, collaborator and wife of historian Edgar Snow, left Utah as an inexperienced 18-year old and threw herself into the turmoil of Revolutionary China. This engrossing documentary of her life allows us to view rare archival footage and photos of what she witnessed from 1931 until 1940, as China experienced devastating floods, famine, revolution, civil war and bombardment and invasion by the Japanese. For historians in both China and the U.S., her first-hand account of the Chinese Revolution in the mid-1930s.

Runtime

57 min

Contributor

Geography

Genre

Date of Publication

2001

Database

Alexander Street

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