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Helen Foster Snow

American journalist who wrote as Nym Wales. She followed Edgar Snow, then her husband, into the Communist base area at Yan'an in 1937, interviewing its leaders for Inside Red China, and co-founded the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Gung Ho) movement. Her Song of Ariran, the life story of the Korean revolutionary Kim San, became a classic in Korea.

Lived: 1907–1997
Also known as: Nym Wales · Helen Snow
Authority records: Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources: Wikipedia — Helen Foster Snow

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

Year	Title	First published by	Records
1938	Industrial Defense Line for China✓ With a report on the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives by Rewi Alley.	China Defense League, Hong Kong	Open Library · WorldCat record
1939	Inside Red China✓ Published as by Nym Wales.	Doubleday, Doran, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1941	China Builds for Democracy✓ — A Story of Cooperative Industry Published as by Nym Wales.	Modern Age Books, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1941	Song of Ariran✓ — The Life Story of a Korean Rebel Written with Kim San; published as by Nym Wales.	John Day, New York	Open Library · Library of Congress record
1945	The Chinese Labor Movement✓ Published as by Nym Wales.	John Day, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1952	Fables and Parables for the Mid-Century✓	Philosophical Library, New York	Open Library
1952	Red Dust✓ — Autobiographies of Chinese Communists Published as by Nym Wales.	Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.	Open Library · WorldCat record
1958	Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China✓ Typescript research notes.	Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.	Open Library · WorldCat record
1959	Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935–1936 Typescript research notes; no imprint recorded.	Privately issued
1961	Historical Notes on China Typescript research notes; published as by Nym Wales.	H. F. Snow
1961	My Yenan Notebooks Typescript research notes; no imprint recorded.	Privately issued
1961	Notes on Korea and the Life of Kim San Typescript research notes; no imprint recorded.	Privately issued
1961	Notes on the Left-Wing Painters and Modern Art in China Typescript research notes; published as by Nym Wales; no imprint recorded.	Privately issued
1967	Women in Modern China✓	Mouton, The Hague	Open Library · WorldCat record
1972	The Chinese Communists✓ — Sketches and Autobiographies of the Old Guard Published as by Nym Wales.	Greenwood, Westport, Conn.	Open Library · Open Library
1984	My China Years✓	William Morrow, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1985	The Gung Ho Papers✓ Papers on the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Gung Ho) movement.	Bookmark Limited Press	Open Library

Editions in the catalogue

Editions of Helen Foster Snow by year: 7 dated titles, 1981–2004, most in 2004 (4). Lines mark died 1997.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1980s	3
2000s	4

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1981	Qi shi nian dai xi xing man ji✓	Helen Foster Snow	Shaanxi People's Publishing House	Chinese
1981	七十年代西行漫记	Helen Foster Snow, 危安 & 华剑	Shaanxi People's Publishing House	Chinese
1986	Sinuo zen yang xie zuo✓	Helen Foster Snow & Junsheng Yin	Hubei People's Publishing House	Chinese
2004	China Builds for Democracy✓Free — A Story of Cooperative Industry Light on China	Helen Foster Snow	Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)	English
2004	Inside Red China✓	Helen Foster Snow	Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)	English
2004	My China Years✓ — A Memoir Light on China	Helen Foster Snow	Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)	English
2004	Women in Modern China✓ Light on China	Helen Foster Snow	Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)	English