SNOW’s UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS—In Communicating to the World About the Chinese Revolution,in Promoting Sino-US Understanding and Better Ties

Part IIWhen the People’s Repub-lic of China was foundedEdgar Snow and Helen Foster Snowin 1949, Edgar Snow was one ofthe earliest and most insistentAmerican voices for US recogni-tion of China’s new government(see Israel Epstein’s speech onOct.18, 2000). In 1959, he againfelt that the recognition of the PRCwould lead to the negotiation ofdisputes including the Taiwanquestion that were still pendingbetween America and China.In the 1950s, Snow was oneof the many China experts in th…