BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) — The up to date worth of the legacy left by the American journalist Edgar Snow was highlighted in a suppose tank report launched Tuesday, which referred to as for extra Snow-like figures to current a complete, multi-dimensional, and truthful image of the world from an goal standpoint and with cool-headed commentary.
Titled “Legacy of Edgar Snow: Contemporary Value and Inspiration to the World,” the report was issued by the National High-Level Think Tank of Xinhua News Agency at a world symposium held in Beijing.
It was collectively written by the Xinhua Institute — a suppose tank affiliated with the news company — and the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University (PKU).
This 12 months marks the ninetieth anniversary of the victory of the Long March by the Red Army below the management of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and likewise the ninetieth anniversary of Snow’s first go to to the CPC’s Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia revolutionary base, which impressed his famend work “Red Star Over China.”
Ninety years in the past, 31-year-old Snow broke by way of blockades and ventured deep into China’s impoverished northwest to interview the Red Army, producing the world-shaking work. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he made three reporting journeys to the nation, opening a brand new window on “Red China” to the worldwide neighborhood.
Snow persistently approached the Chinese individuals in a spirit of equality, empathy and friendliness, making him a real practitioner of inter-civilizational dialogue on an equal footing, the report stated.
According to the report, in writing “Red Star Over China,” Snow didn’t have the condescending and self-important strategy towards China that was frequent amongst many Westerners of his time. Instead, he met everybody he interviewed and labored with on equal phrases and in mutual help, no matter background or nationality. This enabled him not solely to achieve entry to extra genuine data but in addition to win broad belief and respect.
The report stated Snow’s legacy remains to be related at the moment for bridging the civilizational divide to know the true China.
Only by approaching China with an goal eye, strolling its floor, listening to its individuals, and seeing it for oneself as Snow did, can one transfer past prejudice and stereotypes, perceive the historic inevitability and sensible rationality of China’s pursuit of the Chinese path, and look at China’s improvement achievements, alternatives and challenges pretty, it stated.
The report stated the legacy nonetheless conjures up the world to construct bridges of friendship, promote exchanges and mutual studying and deal with international challenges with joint efforts.
It referred to as for extra “new Snows” to uphold an angle of openness, inclusiveness, change and mutual studying, proceed writing new chapters of friendship between China and the remainder of the world, illuminate the way in which ahead for the peace and improvement of humanity, and rally the individuals of all international locations round a brand new imaginative and prescient of constructing a greater world.
Co-organized by Xinhua News Agency and PKU, the symposium is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at PKU. More than 160 company attended the occasion, together with Snow’s relations, representatives of the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation within the United States, and Chinese and international students on Snow research.
As early because the Thirties, Xinhua labored aspect by aspect with Snow, sending out the “voice of resistance against Japanese aggression” from northern Shaanxi to the world, Fu Hua, president of the news company, stated on the symposium.
On the brand new journey, Xinhua will higher inform the tales concerning the CPC’s governance of China, the tales of China within the new period, and the tales of the worldwide neighborhood collectively constructing a neighborhood with a shared future for humanity in a real, multi-dimensional and complete manner, and can proceed to strengthen the bonds of friendship left by Snow, Fu stated.