Remembering a remarkable woman

Compared with Edgar Snow, the Chinese know very little about this beautiful, passionate and brave woman. However, symposiums held in Xi'an and Beijing recently aimed to remedy that

At midnight on April 30, 1937, a beautiful American woman, 30, secretly jumped out the window of her room on the first floor of the Xijing Hotel in Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province.

Stopping by the wall facing the window, she stepped on the garbage pile and tried to climb over the wall. But as she looked over the wall she saw a Kuomintang patrol marching toward it.