Nym Wales, also known as Helen Foster Snow, was an American journalist who was in China in the 1930s and reported on the developing revolution there. She, like her husband, Edgar Snow, was never a member of the Chinese or American Communist Party but was sympathetic to the Chinese Communists. Thus, she was one of the first Westerners to go into the “red areas” in China’s far northwest, where she befriended Communist Chinese leaders including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
The materials contain Nym Wales’s 1989 unpublished manuscript, in which she gave penetrating insights into the occurrences in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chinese-American relations, globalism, a reflection on her eighty-second birthday in 1989, as well as her correspondence with Communist Chinese provincial organizations and friends within and outside the United States in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.
