Sidney Rittenberg
Sidney Rittenberg (
Chinese: 李敦白;
pinyin: ''Lǐ Dūnbái''; August 14, 1921 – August 24, 2019) was an
American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in
China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with
Mao Zedong,
Zhu De,
Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the
Chinese Communist Revolution, and was with these central Communist leaders at
Yan'an. Later, he was imprisoned in
solitary confinement, twice. In his book "The Man Who Stayed Behind", Rittenberg stated that he was the second
American citizen to join the CCP, the first being the Lebanese-American Doctor
Ma Haide (born Shafick George Hatem.)
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