Ruth Weiss (journalist)
Ruth Felicitas Weiss | |
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People's Republic of China | |
Spouse | Yeh Hsuan |
Children | 2 Sons |
Ruth F. Weiss (December 11, 1908 – March 6, 2006), also known by her Chinese name, Wèi Lùshī (
Biography
Weiss was born in Vienna, and graduated in German and English Studies from the University of Vienna. In 1933 she travelled to Shanghai, a city that before World War II attracted many European émigrés including revolutionaries from the Spanish Civil War, Jews and other refugees escaping the Nazis. She decided to stay, as did many others, and became fascinated by the social and political goals of the unfolding Chinese Revolution.[citation needed]
Initially Weiss worked as a freelance journalist in Shanghai. Later she became a teacher at the Jewish School in Shanghai, at the School of the Chinese Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, and at the
Ruth Weiss was one of about one hundred foreign-born residents to receive Chinese citizenship in 1955. In 1983 she was named one of eleven foreign experts by the Chinese Communist Party that were part of membership of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[citation needed] She died in Beijing, aged 97.
Works
- "Die Peking-Oper" by Eva Siao, German by Ruth Weiss, Publisher Neue Welt, Beijing, 1958
- "Das kleine China-Handbuch", Verlag für fremdsprachige Literatur (Publishing House for Foreign Literature), Beijing, 1958
- "Die Briefmarken der Volksrepublik China", Verlag für fremdsprachige Literatur, Beijing, 1958
- "Am Rande der Geschichte - Mein Leben in China", Zeller-Verlag Osnabrück 1999; Neuauflage 2005 wagener-edition, ISBN 3-937283-06-4
References
External links
- Ruth F. Weiss at China.org.cn
- Ruth Weiss in Beijing gestorben at China.org.cn(in German)
External links
- Ruth Weiss (journalist) in the German National Library catalogue