| LC control no. | nr 93000905 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rittenberg, Sidney |
| Variant(s) | Li, Dunbei |
| Associated country | China United States |
| Birth date | 1921-08-14 |
| Death date | 2019-08-24 |
| Place of birth | Charleston (S.C.) |
| Place of death | Fountain Hills (Ariz.) |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His The man who stayed behind, c1993: CIP t.p. (Sidney Rittenberg) Wo shi yi ge Zhongguo de Meiguo ren, 2014: t.p. (李敦白 = Li Dunbei) cover (Sidney Rittenberg, 李敦白[Chinese name]) p. 256 (b. 1921) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 26, 2019 (After Army service in World War II brought him to China, a young South Carolina native and labor activist named Sidney Rittenberg stayed on to help build a new world power. Mr. Rittenberg, who was 98 when he died Aug. 24 [2019] in Fountain Hills, Ariz., became one of a handful of Americans who lived behind the lines of a country that developed into a bitter Cold War enemy. He was widely considered one of the most powerful Westerners advising the Chinese government in the 1950s and 60s, but was twice imprisoned and spent 16 years in solitary confinement.Sidney Rittenberg Jr. was born in Charleston on Aug. 14, 1921; returned to the United States in 1979; developed a role as a high-priced fixer who could help American executives glad-hand Chinese officials and sign new business deals in the country. He served as an indispensable middleman to companies such as Prudential Financial, American International Group, Intel and Microsoft. Survivors include four children, Jenny, Toni, Sunny and Sidney Jr.) LC database, Aug. 26, 2019 (access point: Rittenberg, Sidney; usage: Sidney Rittenberg; Sidney Rittenberg, Sr.) |
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