Anna Louise Strong

Strong attended Oberlin College in Ohio. She was later to return to speak at her alma mater many times.

She married Soviet official Joel Shubin and fellow supporter of socialist ideals in 1932, who died in 19xx. Much like Strong, Shubin was a man passionately dedicated to his work and to the socialist cause. The two were often separated due to work commitments and would ultimately spend relatively little time together before the former's death--at which time, too, Strong was geographically far apart from her husband.

Strong and W. E. B. DuBois visited Communist China during the Great Leap Forward and never supported famine-related criticisms of the Great Leap. She wrote a book titled When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet based on her experience. Both these authors, however, had been taken through Potemkin-village style tours of China, never travelling outside of the supervision of the authorities. Both DuBois and Strong are infamous for their rose-coloured depiction of the unfortunate events of that era, its famine, and the invasion of Tibet.

Strong returned to China in 1958, where she settled permanently until her death in 1978.

She had a close relationship with Zhou Enlai, and was in familiar terms with Mao Zedong.

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