120 years ago today, July 19, 1905 (June 17, 1905 in the lunar calendar), the famous American journalist and writer Edgar Snow was born. Helen Foster Snow and Edgar Snow Edgar Parks Snow, who used the name Xerox in China, was a famous American journalist and writer, and a friend of the China people. Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1905. After graduating from the University of Missouri, he worked for the Kansas City Star newspaper. He went to Shanghai, China in 1928. From 1929 to 1930, he served as assistant editor of Shanghai's Miller Review, and was appointed as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in China. Since then, he has served as a special reporter for the Unified Newspaper Association, the New York Sun, and London's Daily Herald, covering various parts of China. 1933-1938 He taught at Yanjing University in Peiping in 1999. In 1936, he visited the Northern Shaanxi Revolutionary Base in China and was received by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, etc. He later wrote the book "A Journey to the West", introducing to the people of the United States and the world the great struggle of the China revolution and the heroic achievements of the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March. He returned to the United States in 1941. 1942-1946 He served as a reporter for the Saturday Evening Post in 1999 and also traveled around the world as a military correspondent. 1943-1952 He served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper in 1999. He moved to Switzerland in 1959 and visited China three times in 1960, 1964 and 1970. He wrote a large number of reports introducing China's socialist revolution and construction, contributing to enhancing understanding and friendship between the Chinese and American peoples. He died in Geneva on February 15, 1972. According to the will, part of the ashes will be buried on the shores of Weiming Lake at Peking University in China. His works include "The Far East Front"(1934),"Scorched Earth"(1941),"Stalin Must Peace"(1947),"The Journey to the Starting Point"(1958),"Across the River: Today's Red China"(1962),"Today's China"(1963),"Washington-Tokyo-Beijing"(1969),"The Long Revolution"(1973), etc.