Israel Epstein, also known as Ai Pei, was born in Poland in 1915 and settled in China with his parents when he was a child.He worked as a journalist for the Beijing Times from 1931, and as a reporter for the Associated Press in 1937.He joined the Alliance for the Defense of China, an organization initiated by Soong Ching-ling, in Hong Kong in 1939 and was in charge of propaganda work. During the Anti-Japanese War, he endeavored to report to the people of the world about the leaders of the Chinese ****anization Party, the liberated areas and the heroic struggle of the Chinese people. After the surrender of Japan, he took an active part in the struggle against interference in China's internal affairs in the U.S. In 1951, at the invitation of Soong Ching Ling, he returned to China to take part in the founding of the magazine China Construction. he became a Chinese citizen in 1957, and joined the Chinese ****anese Communist Party in 1964. Xinhua Beijing, May 31 (Xinhua) -- China *** Producer's Party outstanding member, outstanding internationalist warrior, internationally renowned journalist and writer Israel Epstein, due to medical treatment, died at 11:00 a.m. on May 26 in Beijing at the age of 90 years.
Famous are American journalists Edgar Snow and wife Helen Snow, Anna Louise Strong, Agnes Smedley, Israel. Epstein, Harrison Foreman, Jack, Belden, Theodore White (since the revision of Germany), British journalists James Bertrand, Gunther Stein, German journalist Hans Sieber and so on. They visited Yan'an and the anti-Japanese bases, faithfully reported the situation of the Chinese army and people's resistance to the war, and exposed the atrocious crimes of the Japanese invaders and the reactionary behavior of the Kuomintang's stubborn faction, which had a wide impact both at home and abroad.
There are 38 international friends who carried out medical activities in China during the war period. Canada and the United States medical team has Bai Qiu'en (Canada), Parsons (U.S.) doctors and Joan Youn (Canada) nurses; India's medical team to China has Edward (captain), Basu Hua, Ke Sheng Hua, Mukhua, Zhuo Kehua (after the Mukhua, Zhuo Kehua earlier return to China); International Red Cross medical team, there are Germany's Baer, Bailiff, Gutierrez, Marcus, Wang Tao, Poland's Fradu, Ronggemann, Ganliang and Mrs. Tao Weide, Austria's Bell, Bailef, Günther, Markus and Wang Tao, Poland's Fu Radu, Ronggemann, Ganliang and Mrs. Tao Weide. The International Red Cross medical teams were from Germany: Bell, Whiteleaf, Guttel, Marcus, Wang Dao from Germany, Frado, Rongman, Gan and his wife, Tao Weide from Poland, Fuhrwald, Yenfeld, Kent from Austria, Jango, Ho and his wife from Romania, Ho, Riegel and Kisch from Czechoslovakia, Gan and Yangdao from Bulgaria, Shen from Hungary, Ho, Lejing from the USSR, and Gao Tienyi from the UK. They came to China alone or participated in the medical work on the spot in China. They either went to the front to treat the sick and wounded, assisted in the training of medical personnel, or participated in the establishment of medical institutions, all of which made great achievements in various aspects.
Participating in the construction of various In the war years, some international friends came to China to participate in the construction. The construction of "industrial cooperatives" was carried out. The earliest initiator was Louis Xavier. During the war period, the former Yanjing University in Beiping, British professor Lin Maike and his wife, Li Xiaoli and another British professor, William Ban and his wife, Craner, have trained technical personnel for my anti-Japanese base.
Eiko Midorikawa, a Japanese Esperanto scholar, married Liu Ren, a Chinese student at Tokyo Higher Teacher's College, in Japan. She came to Shanghai at the beginning of the war. During the August 13th War, she wrote "Love and Hatred" to express her willingness to join the Chinese army to fight against Japanese imperialism and for the liberation of the Chinese nation, and in April, she went to Wuhan to join the propaganda section of the Propaganda Office of the National Government, where she "created thunder and lightning with her soft voice", and "stabbed the invaders in the chest with a glittering knife in fluent Japanese". She interviewed the Northeastern anti-Japanese heroine Mrs. Zhao, whom she praised as "the mother of the great age," and called on Japanese women to "stop their husbands and sons from slaughtering their innocent neighbors." In Chongqing, she "continued to work under the Cultural Committee of the International Propaganda Office led by Guo Moruo, where she wrote and translated such treatises as "Fighting China", "Chorus Before Dawn", and "Women of China and Japan Join Hands", exposing the atrocities of the Japanese invaders and calling on people to fight for world peace. Zhou Enlai praised her as "a faithful daughter of the Japanese people" and "a true patriot." Jung Yoo-sung, a native of Korea, came to China in 1933 and joined the Korean anti-Japanese organization in China. During the "August 13th" war in Shanghai, he met the patriotic musician Xian Xinghai and joined the propaganda activities on the front line of anti-Japanese salvation. Later, he went to Yan'an to study at the music department of Lu Xun Art Institute and wrote a song called "Ode to Yan'an". The song was not formally published at the time, but quickly circulated, there are a lot of hot-blooded young people is singing it to run to Yan'an.
Many international friends, including combatants, commanders and military observers, came to China during the war of resistance against Japan. Among the combatants, there are the Soviet Union volunteer pilot brigade headed by Kulishenko (together with the technicians 700 people, the sacrifice of 200 people) (20), to Robert Shandel, Jack Newkirk as the captain of the U.S. air force personnel in China (sacrifice and there are dozens of names can be found); (21) in the command staff, there are to participate in the Jin-Hebei war of resistance after the rank of the former Vietnamese generals flooded by our army, and there are the U.S. Government Sent to serve as chief of staff of the Chinese War Area Command and commander of the U.S. forces in China, Burma and India, Stilwell; in the military observers have come to China during the war period of the U.S. Marine Corps Evans-Fordyce-Carlson, there is a late war in Yan'an to study the U.S. military observer group members Xie Weisi, Domkei, Davis, and so on. They placed themselves in actual battles, or blood baths, or served as military commanders, or military observation, to increase the strength of the war of resistance as well as to help foreign countries to understand the Chinese ****production party. Enhance the international anti-fascist forces to work together have played a positive role.
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