What is Sidney Rittenberg?
[[File:Sidney Rittenberg 20121004 3.jpg|right|200px]] '''Sidney Rittenberg''' ({{zh|c=李敦白|p=Lǐ Dūnbái}}; August 14, 1921 – August 24, 2019) was an American journalist, educator, and Chinese linguist. He was born in [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. He lived in [[China]] from 1944 to 1980. He was imprisoned in [[solitary confinement]], twice, for a total of 16 years.<ref name=BBC>Michael Bristow, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13974472 'Sidney Rittenberg: Chairman Mao's Favourite American'], BBC, 30 June 2011.</ref> He was the first [[Americans|American]] citizen to join the CCP.<ref name=nyt710>{{cite news|url=http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/the-man-who-stayed-behind-in-china-comes-forward/?ref=china |title=The Man Who Stayed Behind in China Comes Into Focus|author= MARK MCDONALD |publisher=New York Times |date=2012-07-10 |access-date=2012-07-10}}</ref> Rittenberg died on August 24, 2019 in [[Scottsdale, Arizona]] at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/world/sidney-rittenberg-dead.html|title=Sidney Rittenberg, Idealistic American Aide to Mao Who Evolved to Counsel Capitalists, Dies at 98|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 25, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2009/sep/25/china-chairman-mao Video interview with Sidney Rittenberg] *[http://revolutionarymovie.com Website for feature documentary on Sidney Rittenberg's life in China] *[https://medium.com/war-is-boring/meet-the-american-who-joined-mao-s-revolution-494daf42cd31 Interview from 2015] {{DEFAULTSORT:Rittenberg, Sidney}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Educators from South Carolina]] [[Category:American political activists]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:American communists]] [[Category:American journalists]] [[Category:Writers from Charleston, South Carolina]] {{US-bio-stub}}