Bertha Sneck
Bertha Sneck ( Chinese name: Shǐ Kè史克; born December 3, 1916 in Maynard ; died March 1, 2010 in Beijing ) was an American lecturer who lived in China .
biography
Bertha Sneck came to China with her husband Bill Hinton in 1948, where their daughter Carma Hinton was born. She worked at the Beijing Foreign Language Institute from 1949 to 1963 and from 1964 to 1972 for the magazine China im Bild .
In June 1966, Bertha Sneck and three other Americans - Ann Tompkins, Joan Hinton and Sid Engst - wrote a wall newspaper ( dàzìbào大字报) in which they demanded to be treated the same as their Chinese colleagues and to participate in political activities allowed to. A copy of the wall newspaper was presented to Mao Zedong , who commented on it with praise.
From 1972 until her retirement, Bertha Sneck worked for the Peking-Rundschau and also for the magazine Chinese Literature . In 1984 she was recognized by the State Council for special merits.
literature
- Dao-yuan Chou: Silage Choppers and Snake Spirits. The Lives and Struggles of Two Americans in Modern China . IBON Books, 2009.
- Woei Lien Chong: China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, ISBN 0-7425-1874-4 .
- Ann Tompkins, Lincoln Cushing: Chinese Posters. Art From the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chronicle Books, 2007, ISBN 0-8118-5946-0 .
- 北京 周 报社 ： 讣告 。8. March 2010.
Web links
- 北京 周 报社 ：北京 周 报社 外国 专家 史克 逝世 China Foreign Language Office , March 10, 2010.
- 中国 外文 局 郭晓勇 ： 打造 传播 中国 的 “出海 之 船” China.org.cn , September 10, 2009.
Footnotes
- ↑ Chou 2009, p. 350; 毛泽东 ： 对 四位 美国 专家 的 一张 大字报 的 批语 (September 8, 1966). In: 《建国 以来 毛泽东 文稿》. Beijing: 中央 文献 出版社, 1998, vol. 12, p. 126f., ISBN 7-5073-0397-7 and 毛泽东 ： 对 四位 美国 专家 的 一张 大字报 的 批示 (August 29, 1966). In: 《毛泽东 思想 万岁》 Vol. 1961–1968, p. 350, Beijing: Samizdat, (2005?) With slightly different wording and date.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sneck, Bertha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shǐ Kè, 史克 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lecturer in China |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maynard |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 2010 |
| Place of death | Beijing |