Snow, Edgar Parks

Japanese: スノー（英語表記）Snow， Edgar Parks

Born July 19, 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri
[Died] February 15, 1972. Nyon, Switzerland. An American journalist with a strong knowledge of China. Studied at the University of Missouri and Columbia University. In 1928, he moved to Shanghai, and from 1929 to 1930, he was deputy editor of the China Weekly Review in Shanghai, and from 1934 to 1935, he was a lecturer at Yenching University in Beijing. From 1934 to 1937, he was a correspondent for the New York Sun. He was active in reporting from the Manchurian Incident to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in 1936, he was the first foreigner to enter the Yan'an area, where he met Mao Zedong, and gained worldwide fame with Red Star Over China, the first to report on the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party. From 1943 to 1951, he was deputy editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During World War II, he visited India, China, the Soviet Union, and other countries as a war correspondent. After the war, he visited China in 1960, 1965, and 1970, and met with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and others, reporting on the true state of China. In December 1970, Mao Zedong conveyed to him his readiness to meet with U.S. President Nixon, which played a key role in bringing the two countries closer together. His other books include The Other Side of the River: Red China Today (1962).

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Snow, Charles Percy

Born: October 15, 1905, Leicester
[Died] July 1, 1980, London. British novelist and physicist. Educated at the University of Leicester and the University of Cambridge, he taught at Cambridge for many years. During World War II, he participated in the planning of the government's science administration, and began writing novels around that time. He published The Search (1934), followed by Strangers and Brothers (40), which became the first of an 11-volume series of novels of the same name (completed in 70). In 1950, he married the female writer Pamela H. Johnson. In 1959, he gave a lecture at Cambridge University entitled The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which pointed out the unfortunate division between spiritual culture and scientific civilization and criticized the indifference of some literary figures to science, causing a great stir and leading to a debate with FR Leavis and others.

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Japanese:

[生]1905.7.19. ミズーリ，カンザスシティー
[没]1972.2.15. スイス，ニヨン
中国通のアメリカのジャーナリスト。ミズーリ大学，コロンビア大学に学んだ。 1928年上海に渡り，29～30年上海の『チャイナ・ウィークリー・レビュー』誌副編集長，34～35年北京燕京大学講師。 34～37年『ニューヨーク・サン』特派員。満州事変から日中戦争勃発にかけての報道活動はめざましく，36年外国人として初めて延安地区に入り，毛沢東と会見，中国共産党の実態を初めて伝えた『中国の赤い星』 Red Star Over Chinaにより世界的名声を得た。 43～51年『サタデー・イブニング・ポスト』誌副編集長。第2次世界大戦中従軍記者としてインド，中国，ソ連などを訪問した。戦後も 60，65，70年に訪中，毛沢東，周恩来らと会見，中国の実情を伝えた。特に 70年 12月には，毛沢東からニクソン米大統領と会談する用意のある旨を伝えられ，米中接近の役割の一端をになった。著書はほかに『中国，もう一つの世界』 The Other Side of the River: Red China Today (1962) などがある。

スノー
Snow， Charles Percy

[生]1905.10.15. レスター
[没]1980.7.1. ロンドン
イギリスの小説家，物理学者。レスター大学，ケンブリッジ大学に学び，長らくケンブリッジで教えた。第2次世界大戦中から政府の科学行政の立案に参加，その頃から創作を始め，『探究』 The Search (1934) を発表，それに続く『見知らぬ人と兄弟たち』 Strangers and Brothers (40) は，全 11巻に及ぶ同名の連作小説 (70完結) の第1作となった。 1950年女流作家パミラ・H・ジョンソンと結婚。 59年に行なったケンブリッジ大学での講演『二つの文化と科学革命』 The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolutionは精神文化と科学文明との不幸な分裂を指摘し，一部の文学者の科学への無関心を批判して，大きな反響を巻起し，F.R.リービスらとの論争に発展した。

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