Personal details
Full Name:
- Rewi Alley
Lifetime:
- 2 Dec 1897–27 Dec 1987
Biography
In December 1926 Rewi Alley left New Zealand ‘to go and have a look at the Chinese revolution’. Alley stayed in China for 60 years, becoming one of its best-known and best-loved foreigners.
Read more...Events In History
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27 December 1987Death of Rewi AlleyThe former Cantabrian died in Beijing after living in China through six tumultuous decades. Read more...
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Main image: Rewi Alley
Rewi Alley photographed by Gordon Burt, probably in the late 1920s
