Manya Reiss

Manya Reiss (also known as Maria Aerova, sometimes spelled Ayerova, Chinese: 马尼娅; pinyin: Mǎníyà, 1900–1962) was an American Marxist–Leninist and a founding member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

[1]: 203 Manya Reiss was born in China to a family of Russian-Jewish origin and then immigrated to the United States in 1912.

[2] In 1957, Reiss moved to China to work for Xinhua News Agency[1]: 203  and the Beijing Daily.

[4] When Reiss became ill with cancer, she was visited in the hospital by Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi, and Lu Dingyi.

[1]: 203  Wu Lengxi, director of the New China News Agency and Sidney Rittenberg delivered eulogies.