Why Peking University?
Snow: The authorities had several places picked out. I suggested Baoan where Ed met Mao and the Red Army but they said it was too far away. Then I thought of Peking University. Ed taught journalism there when it was Yanjing University. I wanted it open to everyone and no fuss made about it. I sent over a couple hundred tulip bulbs. And so that’s where he is and it’s nice. There’s a headstone that says in Chinese and English: “Edgar Snow, American Friend of the Chinese People.” It’s the “people” that are important. (Snow returned home late last week to find a Chinese film crew at work outside her home. “We asked them what they were doing. None spoke English,” she told TIME. “It was so astonishing that they would do something like that.
