Talk:Agnes Smedley
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[edit] New Source Material
There is a new piece by Smedley scholar Ruth Price in the July 29 2005 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education that could be mined for material for this entry. The article can be found here. It particularly highlights her espionage activities and general service to Communists. --Varenius 19:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- I'd like to read that, but you can't get in unless you're a subscriber. The last piece I read on Agnes told of how she took money from the Comintern to start a newspaper in China, then refused to do anything they asked, and told them all to go to hell. The Comintern sent out an angry message intructing all party members to shun her. Sounds like an enterprising woman to me. --Grif FarielloGrifross 05:48, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
The article by Ruth Price can be easily found using Google's cache function (which is not accessible in China), and it is indeed interesting.
I've read elsewhere (in a review of Zhang Rong's biography of Mao by Delia Davin), that Agnes Smedley "fell into official disfavour with both the Soviet and the Chinese party authorities". Do you know more about that? Babelfisch 05:26, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
