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Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997.
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Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 -- Homes and haunts -- China.
Americans -- China -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Travel writers -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997.
Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 -- Homes and haunts -- China.
Americans -- China -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Travel writers -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
China -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
China -- Description and travel.
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China to me : a partial autobiography / by Emily
Hahn
; with a new introduction by the author.
by
Hahn
, Emily,
1905-1997
.
Open Road Integrated Media, 2014, c1944.
Call #:
951.042 H148c
Subjects
Hahn
, Emily,
1905-1997
-- Homes and haunts -- China.
Americans -- China -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Travel writers -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
China -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
China -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781497638266
Edition:
Reprint edition
Description:
vii, 429 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Philadelphia : Blakiston Co., 1944.
Some editions have subtitle: an adsorbing account of life in the far East in the years before and during World War II.
Summary:
A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily
Hahn
takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and nonfiction seamlessly, Emily
Hahn
looks at everything and everyone she met on her breathtaking journey through the China of the 1930s.
Hahn
investigates not so much the complicated issues of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinary, or extraordinary, lives of Chinese residents and tourists. This includes taking us into the personal lives of everyone from Asian prostitutes to European merchants. Emily
Hahn
, an early feminist and a prolific author, wrote 54 books and more than 200 articles for The New Yorker magazine. She wrote about her adventurous life in the Far East before World War II and also such diverse subjects as Africa, D. H. Lawrence and apes. (Ms.
Hahn
kept gibbons.) She also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter during the 1920's.
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Travel memoirs.
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