biography
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| (1894–1950)
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| biography:
| Journalist and social activist, born in Osgood, Missouri, USA. After an early life of deprivation and self-education, she took up revolutionary and pacifist causes, first being jailed in India (1918) for working for liberation from Britain. She went to China for a German newspaper (1928) and lived there until 1941, openly identifying with the Chinese Communist movement in her reporting and in her best-known book, Battle Hymn of China (1943). |
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