THE GUNG-HO ORIGINAL Helen Foster Snow

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In 1931, a young American aspiring writer set off for what she thought would be a one-year adventure in China. Hoping to gain life experience so she could eventually write the Great American Novel - she would instead become famous as the "Voice of China" to the west, and improve the lives of millions of people in the process. Olivia talks with Helen Foster Snow's great-nephew Adam Foster and her friend and translator Professor An Wei in this unexpected and inspiring episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.1	Hi, Katie.
0:45.5	Hi, Olivia.
0:48.9	Hey, I don't remember you being a tenor.
0:53.1	Hello, I have bronchitis.
0:55.2	Happy holidays.
0:59.3	The beautiful gift your children gave to you.
1:05.9	And yet here you are powering through to bring this story to the masses.
1:07.7	I'm here for it.
1:16.3	And people have stated before how it's hard to tell us apart, but I bet people have no problem telling us apart this time.
1:26.7	Well, this courageous action in difficult times is a good meta lesson about the woman that we're going to be talking about today. Oh, great.
1:28.9	I'm glad we can call this courage.
1:30.8	Yes.
1:32.1	Why? Who are we talking about?
1:34.7	It's 1937.
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