Manya Reiss

Manya Reiss (also known as Maria Aerova, sometimes spelled Ayerova, Chinese: 马尼娅; pinyin: Mǎníyà, 1900–1962) was an American Marxist–Leninist and a founding member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).^[1]^: 203

Manya Reiss was born in China to a family of Russian-Jewish origin and then immigrated to the United States in 1912.^[2] In the United States, she was a garment worker as well as a communist activist.^[3] In 1931, she attended the International Lenin School.^[2] After this, she worked for the Eastern Secretariat of the Comintern and was later sent on missions to Germany and France.^[2] She returned to the United States in the late 1930s to work for the propaganda department of the Communist Party USA and to teach at a party school.^[2] By 1940, she had returned to Moscow.^[2]

In 1957, Reiss moved to China to work for Xinhua News Agency^[1]^: 203 and the Beijing Daily.^[4]

When Reiss became ill with cancer, she was visited in the hospital by Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi, and Lu Dingyi.^[1]^: 203

Reiss died of cancer in Beijing^[5] and was buried at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.^[1]^: 203 Wu Lengxi, director of the New China News Agency and Sidney Rittenberg delivered eulogies.^[1]^: 203 People's Daily reported on her death and memorial service.^[1]^: 203

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Li, Hongshan (2024). Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231207058.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kirill Mikhailovich Anderson (1998): The Soviet world of American communism, Yale University Press
^ China reconstructs, Issues 1-12, page 13
^ Mary M. Leder, Laurie Bernstein (2001): My life in Stalinist Russia: an American woman looks back, Indiana University Press
^ Anne-Marie Brady (2003): Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic, Rowman & Littlefield

[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Li, Hongshan (2024). Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231207058.

[klehr1998-2] Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kirill Mikhailovich Anderson (1998): The Soviet world of American communism, Yale University Press

[Chinareconstructs1-12-3] China reconstructs, Issues 1-12, page 13

[leder2011-4] Mary M. Leder, Laurie Bernstein (2001): My life in Stalinist Russia: an American woman looks back, Indiana University Press

[brady2003-5] Anne-Marie Brady (2003): Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic, Rowman & Littlefield

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