2009 SILF Podcast: Stephen MacKinnon on Intrigue and Romance in the 1930s – Agnes Smedley’s Shanghai

She was one of Shanghai’s legendary figures: an intrepid journalist, a fervent supporter of the Chinese Revolution, a martyr buried at Babaoshan. China scholar and historian Stephen MacKinnon conducted over 80 interviews, many of them with China literary figures, for his biography of Smedley, enriching his tale of this revolutionary - and how she lit up Shanghai.



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Posted Apr 10th 2009 9:37a.m. by Lee Mack
filed under Shanghai International Literary Fest (SILF)

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