Home>News Center>China
           
     

    Hu, Wen say final farewell to Epstein
    (China Daily/Xinhua)
    Updated: 2005-06-03 23:43

    President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao were among 1,000 mourners to pay their last respects yesterday to Israel Epstein, the celebrated journalist.

    Israel Epstein [Xinhua/file]
    Family, friends and colleagues attended the ceremony at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.

    A distinguished Chinese citizen who devoted his life to journalism and to reporting on China, Epstein died in Beijing at age 90 on May 26.

    Lying amidst white lilies and covered with the flag of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Epstein in his life time won admiration and love from people who worked with him.

    President Hu praised Epstein for his "outstanding contributions" to China's progress and "his sincere affection for China and the Chinese people."

    Arriving in China with his Jewish parents at the age of two in 1917, Epstein witnessed all the phases of modern Chinese revolution and of New China's efforts in construction and reforms under the leadership of the CPC.

    During the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945), he was war correspondent for the (US) United Press in Guangzhou, where he met Soong Ching Ling, who invited him to join the China Defence League she established in Hong Kong.

    When serving as a correspondent of the United Press and the Allied Labour News of the United States, Epstein visited Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Shanxi-Suiyuan Anti-Japanese Base Areas, and interviewed Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other CPC leaders.

    Permanently settled in Beijing in 1951 with his first wife Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley and becoming a Chinese citizen in 1957, Epstein wrote and edited for China Reconstructs (China Today) magazine.

    From 1983 on, he served as an elected member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top advisory body in China.

    As a veteran journalist, Epstein also concerned himself with the development of China's foreign language news media, including China Daily, which launched its first issue 24 years ago.

    "He often called me to praise some of the good works the paper carried and point out the things that we missed," recalled Zhu Yinghuang, former editor-in-chief of China Daily and a member of the CPPCC national committee.

    During his lifetime, he penned the books "The People's War in China" (1939), "The Unfinished revolution in China" (1947), "From Opium War to Liberation" (1956), "Tibet Transformed" (1983), "Women in World History: Soong Ching Ling" (1993), "I Visit Yan'an" and "My China Eye -- Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist" (2005).

    He and Cholmeley did not have children of their own but adopted two Chinese children. Cholmeley died in 1984.

    Epstein's body was cremated after the funeral service.

    He is survived by his second wife, Wan Bi, two children and two stepchildren.



     
      Today's Top News     Top China News
     

    Floods and landslides claim 88, another 73 missing

     

       
     

    Bo: Solve textile disputes properly

     

       
     

    Mundell: China should keep currency peg

     

       
     

    China opposes UNSC enlargement with Japan

     

       
     

    Hong Kong needs more political talents

     

       
     

    Boeing 787 to get Chinese components

     

       
      Bo: Solve textile disputes properly
       
      Hong Kong needs more political talents
       
      Floods and landslides claim 88, another 73 missing
       
      Boeing 787 to get Chinese components
       
      Hu, Wen say final farewell to Epstein
       
      Girl issues mercy blood plead
       
     
      Go to Another Section  
     
     
      Story Tools  
       
      News Talk  
      It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
    Advertisement
             
    韩日美无码精品无码| 欧美日韩国产中文高清视频| 中文毛片无遮挡高潮免费| 自慰无码一区二区三区| 无码AV中文一区二区三区| 国产热の有码热の无码视频 | 无码人妻一区二区三区精品视频 | 性无码专区无码片| 乱人伦中文视频高清视频| 亚洲精品无码久久毛片| 毛片无码免费无码播放| 在线观看片免费人成视频无码| 一本大道香蕉中文在线高清| 久久中文字幕人妻丝袜| 九九久久精品无码专区| 国产精品无码A∨精品影院| 亚洲大尺度无码无码专区| 久久AV高潮AV无码AV| 最近完整中文字幕2019电影 | 中文字幕乱人伦| 中文字幕av高清有码| а中文在线天堂| 日本中文字幕网站| 99精品久久久久中文字幕| 无码中文av有码中文a| 中文字幕乱码人在线视频1区 | 国产精品中文字幕在线观看| 日本中文字幕在线| 中文在线中文A| 亚洲中文字幕无码久久2017| 天堂а√中文最新版地址在线| 亚洲午夜无码AV毛片久久| 中日精品无码一本二本三本| 五十路熟妇高熟无码视频| 影院无码人妻精品一区二区| 中文字幕乱码无码人妻系列蜜桃| 无码专区中文字幕无码| 中文在线最新版天堂8| 亚洲欧洲中文日韩久久AV乱码| 最近2019中文字幕一页二页| 亚洲中文久久精品无码ww16|