Exchanging Information through Literature
文学 交流
Democracy
Democracy was a magazine published by Helen (using the pseudonym "Nym Wales"), along with Edgar, and a Chinese friend, Hubert Liang. Through this magazine they were able to exchange information with the Chinese people and the outside world.
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“It was immediate, sensational success, taking China’s intellectual world by storm...Many of its articles were translated and published in Chinese periodicals...The Kuomintang took notice and protested against its pro-Communist leanings....Even the archenemy of China, Matsuoka, Japan’s Director of the South Manchurian Railways, for purposes best known to himself, bought up 400 copies of the first issue of Democracy to be sent back to Japan.”
-Hubert Liang, in Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution. |
Newspaper Articles Helen was involved in the exchange of information between China and the rest of the world. She published many articles in the U.S. that described what was going on in China and how it felt to be there.
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“Every minute we are expecting the Japanese fleet to steam into the peaceful Whangpoo River. Several transports of marines come in now and then, but you could hear a pin drop as far as actual war is concerned. However, when a pin drops there probably won’t be much left of China but 400,000,000 lost souls looking for a concession. If you only knew how tragic and strange it is to be here now!”
-Helen Foster Snow, in "Helen Foster Snow – A Utah Pioneer" |
Inside Red China
"Additionally, after the Snows’ books were translated into Chinese, they provided a valuable service to the Chinese masses, as they heretofore had little historical information on their leaders’ lives."
-Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution.
-Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution.