"Her whole life was full of resistance, not only against people oppressing people, but also against women oppressing men and men oppressing women."
Her life has been full of ups and downs, but she has also enjoyed plain peace, she is both simple and complex, she has been kissed by God and the devil at the same time, her name is Agnes Smiret.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > the road to growth, with countless thorns</h1>
Before coming to China and becoming a world-famous female writer and revolutionary, Smiret was just an ordinary skinny baby girl born in a poor family in Missouri, USA.
At the bottom of the social ladder, the populous and young Smylet family, only the father worked in the mine as the main expense of the family, the mother earned some trivial subsidies for the rich as a maid, and the aunt a woman fell into the red light district under the oppression of the dark society.
And the father is grumpy and drunk, the mother is cowardly and does not dare to resist, smyrrite, who grew up in this environment, in the process of growing up, strengthened his determination to change the status quo.
The poverty of her family did not hinder her desire to learn, she wandered away, worked and studied half-time, persevered with amazing perseverance, and successfully graduated from normal school.
After she had the knowledge and ability, she firmly fought for women's rights and freedoms, and fought for the rights and interests of the people at the bottom. But in the conservative society dominated by the bourgeoisie at that time, Smiret's behavior undoubtedly slapped all the capitalists in the face. As a result, she was put in jail and held up for half a year.
After Smiret was released from prison, he resolutely decided to rush to Europe, the world that had experienced the bleakness and darkness of the First World War.
In Berlin, she experienced a warm but divided life, and she accompanied the Indian revolutionaries to witness the progress and evolution of history, but also to bear the deception of human emotions and the criticism of social morality.
She finally decided to leave the sad city, and as a reporter for the Frankfurt newspaper, she went through a long journey to Shanghai, a devastated city that had experienced countless wars.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > daughter of the earth, fighting for the people</h1>
Stepping into this land, the scene reminds her of the things of her childhood, the dark and repressed society, the desperate and gray eyes, she knows that here is the need for her!
During his seven years in Shanghai, Smylet became acquainted with the underground Communist Party members Song Qingling, Lu Xun and others, and repeatedly invited famous American doctors to treat his lung disease for Lu Xun, and wept bitterly for Lu Xun's condition.
At this time, Zhou Jianping, who is currently vice chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Guangdong-Gansu Border Region, was once again seriously injured in the encirclement and suppression war and had to withdraw from the front line and rush to Shanghai for treatment. Smiret's admiration and yearning for the Red Army also began with this encounter.
Because of Zhou Jianping's special status, Kuomintang spies were hunting him down everywhere, so Zhou Jianping was always recuperating in Smiret's house when he was in Shanghai. During his convalescence, Zhou Jianping often told Smiret about the experience of the Zhumao Red Army's War of Resistance.
Zhou Jianping's words turned into scenes of images that seemed to swirl in Smiret's mind like a movie, giving her a sense of eager exploration and deep belonging to this never-before-seen organization.
In 1936, due to the continuous aggression of the Japanese army, the Kuomintang and the Communists negotiated a united front and unanimously confronted Japan, which is known in history as the "Xi'an Incident". Smiret, who witnessed this shocked the reform movement at home and abroad, revealed the terms of the Kuomintang-Communist negotiations without permission, which was condemned within the Communist Party.
The following year, Smiret left Xi'an and arrived at the revolutionary base of Yan'an, a place she had always longed for, and she knew that there must be many stories worth recording here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > an international friendship that will be remembered throughout my life</h1>
The first time Smire saw Jude, she didn't recognize that this was the commander of the military headquarters of the commanding side, and it was really not surprising that she didn't recognize it, because the difference between Jude's image and what she had heard before was too big.
Zhu De was dressed in a blue cotton coat that was neither new nor old, with protruding cheekbones, a wide forehead and a black face, a face full of folds, completely looking like a rural old man, which was quite different from the grumpy eight-foot man she imagined.
However, this did not dampen her enthusiasm, but felt that such a Commander Zhu De could better reflect the most essential characteristics of the peasant class. So she began to "stalk" and said to Jude, "I hope you can tell me all the experience of your life." Finally grinding Jude promised to let her do a separate and in-depth interview with him.
For this reason, they also had a "gentleman's covenant", and three nights a week, Smiret would bring pen and paper to Judd's cave for interviews.
But life did not have a satisfactory life, just halfway through the interview, Smiret suddenly fell off the horse, injured his back, and the interview was forced to be aborted.
But Smiret, whose heart was like a fire, was not willing to stop here, she did not listen to the persuasion of others, resolutely packed up her bags, took a typewriter and camera, and set off lightly, rushing to Zhu De, who was fighting on the front line in Shanxi because of the Lugou Bridge incident.
When Smiret arrived in Shanxi, Zhu De was getting a haircut, like a simple old man, and the barber was nagging at home. Until the two men, startled by Smiret's excited "Commander Zhu", turned back in unison, Judd was frightened by Smiret's sudden arrival, and the barber was frightened by the "Commander".
For Smiret's tenacious and unyielding nature, never give up lightly, Jude is both appreciative and helpless, and can only agree to let her continue to do the interview again. This time, there was no major accident in the middle, and after nine months, on the way to the army of Smyrlet, he completed this arduous and great interview.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="10" > returned home with regret</h1>
With the passage of time, the situation at home and abroad became more severe, and the Japanese army was even more aggressively approaching Shanxi, and Zhu De, after deep thinking, demanded that Smiret immediately evacuate Shanxi and continue the revolutionary work in Hankou, which was too dangerous at the front.
But the stubborn Smiret didn't listen at all, and said firmly, "Wherever you go, I'll go." And said, "Without you, I am tantamount to detachment from the spiritual pillar, and then I am mentally dead." ”
But in the end, Jude persuaded her. In January 1938, Smiret tried to open her crying eyes and look back at the land behind her that contained all her warm feelings and warm memories, and with a strong sense of reluctance and hope, embarked on the road back to China, she always thought that she would return to China again.
After returning to the United States, Smiret still traveled from all walks of life, preaching the spirit of communism in the form of speeches and telling the story of China's War of Resistance to people all over the world.
But things were always unpredictable, and in 1949, Smiret was accused of being a Soviet spy and forced into exile in Britain. However, his already sick body, in a foreign country and unattended environment, became more and more seriously ill.
On her deathbed, she wrote a letter demanding that all of her manuscript money be reserved for Commander-in-Chief Zhu De of China. He also expressed the hope that his ashes would be brought back to China.
"My soul can only find peace in China," she said. ”