阿奇博尔德·斯蒂尔(1903-1992)是20世纪上半叶活跃于中国的一名美国记者,其在中国的阅历富有传奇色彩。来华之后,他先是在1930年代初前往中国东北地区采访报道。抗日战争初期,他目睹了日寇在南京进行的兽性屠杀,并且成为向世界报道南京大屠杀的第一位西方记者。此后,这位名声鹊起的美国记者先后在战时陪都重庆采访蒋介石,多次前往延安采访毛泽东和其他中共领导人。其间,还曾经于1944年前往西藏游历。可以说,他的足迹遍及大半个中国。回国之后,他撰写了《美国人民与中国》一书。他辞世之后,比阿特丽斯·贝克女士编著了 Archibald Steele (1903-1992) was an American journalist who was active in China during the first half of the 20th century. His experience in China is legendary. After coming to China, he first went to report to the northeast China in the early 1930s. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, he witnessed the massacre of the Japanese instigated by the Japanese invaders and became the first Western reporter to report the Nanjing massacre to the world. Since then, the famed American journalist has interviewed Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing during his wartime and went to Yan’an for many interviews with Mao Zedong and other CPC leaders. In the meantime, he also traveled to Tibet in 1944. It can be said that his footprints covered most of China. After returning home, he wrote The American People and China. After his death, Lady Beatrice Beck compiled