ªPARA ₧PAR@ ` TEXT ` Strong, Anna Louise1885╨1970journalist and writerBorn on November 24, 1885, in Friend, Nebraska, Anna Strong grew up there, in Cincinnati, and in Oak Park, Illinois. She was educated in public schools, attended Bryn Mawr College for a year, 1903╨1904, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1905. In 1908 she received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. Over the next several years she organized ╥Know Your City╙ institutes in several Pacific Coast cities and then a series of child welfare exhibits across the country and in Dublin, Ireland, and Panama. During 1914╨1916 she was engaged in arranging exhibits for the U.S. Children╒s Bureau. From 1916 to 1918 she served on the Seattle city school board, and from 1918 to 1921 she was feature editor of the Seattle Union Record, a labor newspaper. In 1919 she published a History of the Seattle General Strike. After a year as a correspondent in Poland and Russia for the American Friends Service Committee she was named Moscow correspondent for the International News Service. From her European observations she drew The First Time in History, 1924, and Children of Revolution, 1925. Becoming an enthusiastic supporter of the Russian experiment in Communism, she returned to the United States in 1925 as an unpaid agent to arouse interest among businessmen in industrial investment and development in Russia. She also lectured widely. Travels in China and other parts of Asia were reflected in China╒s Millions, 1928, Red Star in Samarkand, 1929, and The Road to Grey Pamir, 1931. In 1930 she returned to Moscow and helped found the Moscow News, the first English-language newspaper there. She was managing editor for a year and then a feature writer. She continued to publish books as well: The Soviets Conquer Wheat, 1931, an updated China╒s Millions; the Revolutionary Struggles from 1927 to 1935, 1935, I Change Worlds; the Remaking of an American, an autobiography, 1935, This Soviet World, 1936, and The Soviet Constitution, 1937. In 1936 she returned once again to the United States. She continued to write for leading periodicals, including the Atlantic Monthly, Harper╒s, the Nation, and Asia. Several visits to Spain resulted in Spain in Arms, 1937, and visits to China led to One Fifth of Mankind, 1938. In 1940 she published My Nativeland. Subsequent books included The Soviets Expected It, 1941, Wild River, a novel set in Russia, 1943, Peoples of the U.S.S.R., 1944, I Saw the New Poland, based on her reporting from Poland as she accompanied the occupying Red Army, 1946, Dawn Out of China, 1947, The Chinese Conquer China, 1949, Tomorrow╒s China, 1949 (the last three on the success of Communist revolution in that country), and The Stalin Era, 1956. In 1949, en route to China, she was arrested in Moscow, charged with espionage, and deported; she remained persona non grata in the Soviet Union until cleared in 1955. In 1958 she moved permanently to China, where she traveled extensively and edited the English-language monthly Letter from China for worldwide distribution until shortly before her death. She also published The Rise of the People╒s Communes of China, 1960, and Cash and Violence in Laos and Viet Nam, 1962. Strong enjoyed the respect and confidence of the Chinese government throughout the political upheavals of the 1960s, and during the Cultural Revolution of 1966╨1969 she joined the Red Guard movement. She was a close friend of Mao Tse-tung, whom she had first interviewed in a cave in Yenan Province in 1946. She died in Peking on March 29, 1970. fstyl ` ^ ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ 5 !I !I # !I Q !I o !I p !I v !I z 5¬ { !I K !I d !I p !I å !I ╟ !I ╫ !I ▀ !I ⌠ !I !I !I !I !I S !I ^ !I ⌡ !I !I ! !I D !I E !I ` !I h !I x !I y !I ö !I « !I ┐ !I ╦ !I Γ !I ∞ 5¬ φ !I b !I r !I t !I | !I é !I ê !I Ä !I Æ !I ╕ !I ┼ !I Φ !I δ !I ∞ !I ⁿ !I !I ( !I E !I \ !I d !I n !I ì !I ñ !I ¼ !I └ !I
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