{"product_id":"china-to-me-a-partial-autobiography-paperback","title":"China to Me: A Partial Autobiography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Hahn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahn's now classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, wandering, carousing, living, loving--and writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Many of the pieces in \u003ci\u003eChina to Me \u003c\/i\u003ewere first published as the work of a roving reporter in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. All are shot through with riveting and humanizing detail. During her travels from Nanjing to Shanghai, Chongqing, and Hong Kong, where she lived until the Japanese invasion in 1941, Hahn embarks upon an affair with lauded Chinese poet Shao Xunmei; gets a pet gibbon and names him Mr. Mills; establishes a close bond with the women who would become the subjects of her bestselling book \u003ci\u003eThe Soong Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e; battles an acquired addiction to opium; and has a child with Charles Boxer, a married British intelligence officer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this unflinching glimpse of a vanished world, Hahn examines not so much the thorny complications of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinary--or extraordinary--people caught up in the swells of history. At heart, \u003ci\u003eChina to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a self-portrait of a fascinating woman ahead of her time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the 1920s, including by traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having a child out of wedlock. Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that characterized the Victorian era and was an advocate for the environment until her death at age ninety-two. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Emily Hahn (1905-1997) was the author of fifty-two books, as well as one hundred eighty-one articles and short stories for the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e from 1929 to 1996. She was a staff writer for the magazine for forty-seven years. She wrote novels, short stories, personal essays, reportage, poetry, history and biography, natural history and zoology, cookbooks, humor, travel, children's books, and four autobiographical narratives: \u003ci\u003eChina to Me\u003c\/i\u003e (1944), a literary exploration of her trip to China;\u003ci\u003e Hong Kong Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e (1946); \u003ci\u003eEngland to Me\u003c\/i\u003e (1949); and \u003ci\u003eKissing Cousins\u003c\/i\u003e (1958). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The fifth of six children, she was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and later became the first woman to earn a degree in mining engineering at the University of Wisconsin. She did graduate work at both Columbia and Oxford before leaving for Shanghai. She lived in China for eight years. Her wartime affair with Charles Boxer, Britain's chief spy in pre-World War II Hong Kong, evolved into a loving and unconventional marriage that lasted fifty-two years and produced two daughters. Emily Hahn's final published piece in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1996, shortly before her death.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 452\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760643899680,"sku":"9781497638266","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/085e759826aba53aa1957f2a0cafff0f.webp?v=1780185660","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/china-to-me-a-partial-autobiography-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}