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Agnes Smedley Manuscript on Communist China

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Title: Typed manuscript, signed and edited for publication
Author: Smedley, Agnes
Description: 12 page typed manuscript, with holograph corrections in her hand.To the Congress of American Writers, New York. Strident pro-Communist analysis of events in China from 1927 to 1935. The Comintern dispatched Smedley to China in October 1934 to establish an English-language newspaper in Shanghai. In 1936, she refused to toe the Moscow line on the need for a united front between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. For her independence, she was denounced by the Daily Worker in January 1937. Undeterred, she carried on in China as a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party. On her death in 1950, she willed her estate to the Chinese government.
Heading: (American Radicalism)Place Published: Shanghai, China
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Date Published: 12858