Barbara Stephens (journalist)

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Barbara Stephens was an American journalist killed in Xinjiang province, China in 1947. Stephens was a correspondent for Time Magazine in China covering the Chinese Civil War when in 1947 she traveled to Ili to report on the Soviet backed Second East Turkestan Republic. That year she was killed in a mysterious plane crash from Xinjiang to Beijing that also took the life of a Chinese general and the son of a British member of Parliament.[1] The character Alice James in the historical novel Cloud Mountain by Aimee Liu is based on Stephens.[2]





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  1. ^ Laird, Thomas (2002). Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Sopy and his Secret Expedition into Lhasa. Grove Press, 36. 
  2. ^ Other Voices. Retrieved on 2008-03-20.