1, Edgar Si Nuo (1905 July19—1972 February 15) was born in Missouri, USA, and is a famous American journalist. The book Red Star Shines on China is his masterpiece. 1928 came to China and worked as a reporter and correspondent in many newspapers in Europe and America. From April 1933 to June 1935, Si Nuo was also a lecturer in the journalism department of yenching university, Beiping. From June 65438 to June 0936, Si Nuo visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and wrote a lot of communication reports, becoming the first western journalist to cover the Red Zone. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as a war correspondent in China for the Daily Herald and the American Saturday Evening Post. 1942 went to Central Asia and the Soviet Union for an interview and left China.

2. After the founding of New China, he visited China three times and met with President Mao Zedong.

3. On February 5, 1972, Si Nuo died in Geneva. According to his last wish, some of his ashes were buried on the unnamed lake in Peking University, China.