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 Li Liambi before his interview at the Young Marshall's residence in Xi'an for Helen Foster Snow program. In 1999 Combat Films and Research and Professor Eric Hyer of Brigham Young University set out across China to meet and interview pivotable characters from Helen's life in China, the student movement years in Beijing, with Mao in Yan'an during the summer of 1937, and the Gung Ho Cooperatives. |
Lu Cui as one of Helen’s best student friends in Beijing and a leader of the December 9th student movement that Helen was involved in. Helen and Ed hid her at their home when the KMT police were looking for her. |
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 Israel Epstein (1915-2005). Born in Poland, Israel immigrated with his parents to China to escape the war in Europe when he was two years old. He became a journalist and eventually a member of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1941. Israel was a friend and colleague of both Edgar and Helen Snow. After being assigned to review one of the books of Edgar Snow, Israel Epstein and Snow came to know each other personally and Edgar showed him his classic work Red Star Over China before it was published. During the anti-Japanes war, he faked news about his own death as a decoy for the Japanese who were hunting him. BYU Professor Eric Hyer and Dodge Billingsley of Combat Films and Research interviewed Israel at his home in Beijing in 1999 for their production Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution. |
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 Huang Hua was Helen’s friend in Beijing (Yanjing University) and the CCP member that helped her travel to Yan’an. As the UN Ambassador he visited Helen in Connecticut and as a high-level foreign policy person arranged for Helen’s return to China in the early 1970s. He served as foreign minister in the late 1970s and helped negotiate US-China normalization. BYU Professor Eric Hyer and Dodge Billingsley of Combat Films and Research interviewed Huang Hua in Beijing in 1999 for their production Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution. |
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 Yu Jianting was Helen’s translator when she was in Yan’an with Mao in 1937. Later, after the communists seized power from the nationalists in 1949, he was a deputy in the ministry of industry. BYU Professor Eric Hyer and Dodge Billingsley of Combat Films and Research interviewed Yu at his home in Beijing in 1999 for their production Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution. |
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 Gong Pusheng was an important (female) member of the PRC foreign ministry and served as ambassador to Ireland. She was one of Helen’s best friends from the China years. |
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