By Emily Hahn
ISBN-10: 1497638267
ISBN-13: 9781497638266
Deemed scandalous on the time of its e-book in 1944, Emily Hahn’s now vintage memoir of her years in China is still outstanding for her insights right into a tumultuous interval and her frankness approximately her own exploits. A proud feminist and fearless vacationer, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed during the early years of the second one Sino-Japanese struggle, wandering, carousing, residing, loving—and writing.
some of the items in China to Me were first released because the paintings of a roving reporter in the New Yorker. All are shot via with riveting and humanizing element. in the course of her travels from Nanjing to Shanghai, Chongqing, and Hong Kong, the place she lived until eventually the japanese invasion in 1941, Hahn embarks upon an affair with lauded chinese language poet Shao Xunmei; will get a puppy gibbon and names him Mr. generators; establishes a detailed bond with the ladies who might develop into the topics of her bestselling ebook The Soong Sisters; battles an obtained dependancy to opium; and has a baby with Charles Boxer, a married British intelligence officer.
during this unflinching glimpse of a vanished global, Hahn examines now not a lot the thorny problems of political blocs and celebration clash, however the ordinary—or extraordinary—people stuck up within the swells of historical past. At center, China to Me is a self-portrait of a desirable lady prior to her time.
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