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Former Residence of the Snows

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When Snow lived here, Paozi River still had water. In an era when “there was no longer room for a quiet desk in all of North China,” the beautiful scenery of Paozi River could not keep Snow at ease in his lectern or home. So, from this very courtyard, Snow stepped out onto the streets, threw himself into the December 9th Movement, and wrote the dispatch — “China’s Joan of Arc Has Been Arrested” — to inform the world about the Chinese students’ movement to resist Japan and save the nation. The news of the Red Army’s Long March reaching northern Shaanxi brought new thoughts to Snow. And so, he once again set out from this courtyard, traveled to the anti-Japanese base in northern Shaanxi, and conducted interviews and investigations. He subsequently authored the books — “A Foreigner’s Impressions of Northwest China” and “Red Star Over China” (“Journey to the West”) — “providing the Chinese people with the first authentic account of the Chinese Communist Party,” and also letting the world understand the cause and the inevitability of the final victory of the Chinese revolution.

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When Snow lived here, Paozi River still had water. In an era when “there was no longer room for a quiet desk in all of North China,” the beautiful scenery of Paozi River could not keep Snow at ease in his lectern or home. So, from this very courtyard, Snow stepped out onto the streets, threw himself into the December 9th Movement, and wrote the dispatch — “China’s Joan of Arc Has Been Arrested” — to inform the world about the Chinese students’ movement to resist Japan and save the nation. The news of the Red Army’s Long March reaching northern Shaanxi brought new thoughts to Snow. And so, he once again set out from this courtyard, traveled to the anti-Japanese base in northern Shaanxi, and conducted interviews and investigations. He subsequently authored the books — “A Foreigner’s Impressions of Northwest China” and “Red Star Over China” (“Journey to the West”) — “providing the Chinese people with the first authentic account of the Chinese Communist Party,” and also letting the world understand the cause and the inevitability of the final victory of the Chinese revolution.

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No. 6, Kujiachang Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing