Hans Heber
1897-1941
Male, born in Krakow, Poland, settled in Germany and worked as a journalist after graduating from university. In 1925, he came to China for the first time and worked in the Compilation Department of the General Political Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Guangzhou. In 1928, the book "From Guangzhou to Shanghai" was published in Berlin, introducing the Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party, which attracted countless readers who cared about China to China. After the September 18 Incident, he came to China for the second time to publish political discussions and reports in foreign newspapers and periodicals, exposing Japan's crimes of aggression. After returning to Europe for the third time after a short period of time, he came to China and organized a Marxist study group in Shanghai with Smedley, Ma Haide, Louis Eli and others to jointly study the situation in China. In 1938, he went to Yan'an to conduct an interview and was cordially met by Mao Zedong. In 1939, he went to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui Province, and in 1941, he went to the anti-Japanese base area of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu to conduct interviews, and wrote "The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in China's United War of Resistance". In September of the same year, he arrived at the anti-Japanese base area along the coast of Shandong and wrote many newsletters such as "Travels in the Japanese-Kosovar-Occupied Areas", "Fighting for the Recovery of Shandong", and "The Eighth Route Army in Shandong". In early November, he participated in the Battle of Liutian, led by Luo Ronghuan, and published the field newsletter "Silent Battle" in the "Warrior Newspaper" of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In late November, When Heber's company encountered the Japanese at Daqingshan, Shandong, he threw his pen and took part in the battle with a gun, but unfortunately died in the battle.
In March 1939, Hans Heber (front row, 7th from right) took a group photo with Zhou Enlai and others at the headquarters of the New Fourth Army
In 1940, Hans Heber and Shen Qizhen (chief of the military medical department of the New Fourth Army) were in Yunling, southern Anhui
Xu Xiangqian and Marshal Nie Rongzhen respectively wrote inscriptions for Heber: "Comrade Heber, the great internationalist warrior, will always live in the hearts of the Chinese people" and "Comrade Hans Heber, a great internationalist fighter and close comrade-in-arms of the Chinese people, will always live in our hearts." In 1942, the military and people of Shandong built a monument for him, and Luo Ronghuan inscribed an inscription: "Running for Internationalism in Eurasia, fighting against the blood of the Japanese and Kou." In 1982, the biographical novel "Foreign Eight Roads" based on Heber was published by the writer Wang Huo, which was later filmed as a TELEVISION series. In 1989, the 92nd anniversary of the birth of Hans Heber and the unveiling ceremony of the Heber sculpture were solemnly held in the East China Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery, and a symposium was held to commemorate Hans Heber.
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Paul Robertson
1898-1976
Male, born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, to a black priest family, famous American singer, actor, social activist. He graduated from Columbia University in 1923 and has since engaged in theatrical performances and film shoots. He served as president of the Conference on African Affairs, a black-American progressive organization that focused on the equal rights of blacks and advocated for improvements in the production and living conditions of labor. He also wrote written works such as "I Stand Here" and "Songs of the Black Nation".
In 1940, Paul Robertson participated in a charity performance organized by the "League for the Defense of China" in the United States
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, he openly denounced Japan's war of aggression against China at various rallies. He said: "We blacks and Chinese people are also an oppressed nation, and we want to pay tribute to the Chinese people who resolutely resisted Japan." I want to learn a few Chinese songs, and I want to sing the songs of the Chinese people to people all over the United States and the world! He sang the "March of the Volunteer Army" in Chinese to express his sympathy and support for the Chinese people, and also poured a record, named "Get Up! 》。 Since then, the "Volunteer March" has begun to circulate among progressives in the United States.
Paul Robertson and Liu Liangmo's collection of Chinese anti-war songs "Rise"
In 1941, Soong Ching Ling invited Robertson to be an honorary member of the "League for the Defense of China" she founded, and he actively participated in the "League of Defense" in the United States. Immediately after the founding of New China, he telephoned Mao Zedong: "We congratulate the birth of the People's Republic of China, because it is a great force for world peace and human freedom. Although he never went to China in his lifetime, he had deep feelings for Chinese people. He was awarded the International Peace Prize for his outstanding contribution to the defence of world peace.
Wen Youzhang
1899-1993
Wen Youzhang's family took a group photo in 1936
Male, born into a Canadian missionary family in Leshan, Sichuan Province, China, graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1925, he came to China again to teach at West China Union University and West China Association. From 1944 to 1945, he served as a liaison between the U.S. military and the Communist Party, negotiating the war against Japan, and first contacting Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and other CCP leaders. He founded the Shanghai Newsletter, an underground English-language publication of the Communist Party, in Shanghai, which was distributed to the West to promote the Chinese Communist Party and criticize the dictatorship and corruption of the Nanjing authorities. After returning to Canada, he was elected Chairman of the Toronto Committee for the Defence of World Peace and President of the Canadian National Peace Congress. He led a delegation to North Korea to investigate, and wrote "My Complaint", condemning the use of germ weapons by the United States. In 1953, Wen Youzhang won the Stalin Peace Prize and founded the Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter to publicize and introduce the new China under the leadership of the Communist Party to the Western world, actively advocating world peace and opposing the use of biological and chemical weapons and nuclear weapons.
Wen Youzhang mobilized Chinese recruits in Chongqing in 1938
Wen Youzhang is "the most loyal old friend of the Chinese people" and "he has spent his life shouting and helping the cause of the Chinese people". Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries conferred on him the title of "Messenger of Friendship to the People".
Mao Zedong received Wen Youzhang and his wife
Zhou Enlai received Wen Youzhang in 1972
Needham
1900-1995
Male, born in the United Kingdom. From 1942 to 1946, he worked in China, successively served as the science counselor of the British Embassy in China, the director of the Sino-British Science Cooperation Museum, and was a British modern biochemist and expert in the history of science and technology. Needham led Louis Eli to Gansu to find a new site for the Gonghe Peili School.
In 1943, Joseph Needham and Wu Zuoren were photographed on a trip to northwest China
In 1943, Needham went to Chongqing to investigate animals and plants
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to promote friendship between the British and Chinese peoples, Joseph Needham personally initiated the establishment of the British-Chinese Friendship Association (Anglo-Chinese Understanding Association) and served as its president. With thousands of members at the beginning of its establishment, the Anglo-Chinese Understanding Association was the only way for people-to-people communication between Britain and China in the 1970s. Needham said: "The Chinese culture, Chinese traditions, spiritual temperament of Chinese society and Chinese that have been preserved today and in various eras will make very important contributions to guiding the human world in the future in many aspects." Needham was awarded "China's Edge - Top Ten International Friends".
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In 1992, Joseph Needham took a photo in his cambridge university office
Needham and the History of Science and Technology in China
Jacob Rashant
1903-1952
Rashant in the New Fourth Army
Male, formerly known as Jacob Rosenföld, was born in Lemberg, Austria. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna in 1928 with a doctorate in medicine. He joined the Austrian Social Democratic Party at an early age, was arrested several times for anti-imperialist activities, and then thrown into concentration camps for opposing Hitler's annexation of Austria, and was deported after a year of imprisonment.
In 1941, Rashant was photographed with Liu Shaoqi (left) and Chen Yi (right).
In 1937, he came to China, first opened a clinic in Shanghai, and in 1941 went to the New Fourth Army to meet Chen Yi and Liu Shaoqi, and was assigned to work in the Hospital of the New Fourth Army, where he served as a medical consultant of the military region and the director of the health department of the column. On the anti-Japanese front, he traveled with the army to various places, rescuing the wounded on the battlefield and in the wards of war, saving the lives of countless soldiers. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1943. Shortly after the founding of new China in 1949, he returned to Austria. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel, in April 1952.
In the winter of 1943, Luo Ronghuan (3rd from left) and Luo Shengte, who treated him, took a group photo in Dafangqian Village, Junan County, Shandong Province
In order to commemorate his contribution to Sino-Austrian friendship, in 1992, a 4-meter-high white jade full-body statue of him was built in Junan County, Shandong (the former headquarters of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army), and Junan County Hospital was named RawhanTe Hospital. In 1993, Austria also named a Rashant Hospital. During his lifetime, he wrote the book Austria-China.
In the summer of 1944, Rashant (front row, left 2) took a group photo with some personnel of the Ministry of Health of the Shandong Military Region in Junanxia, Shandong
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