China to Me : A Partial Autobiography (Paperback)

from curlygirl

Amazing picture of life in Hong Kong during the Second World War. Vividly rendered, and interesting because she's seemingly neither prejudiced nor closed to experience.

from BeyondEdenRock

Writer Emily Hahn - known to her friends as Mickey - traveled from the USA to China in 1935 and she didn't come home until she was repatriated - with her daughter - in 1943. She hadn't intended to stay for so long, but she found so many reasons to stay and establish a life there. She was offered ...

from SeriousGrace

People pick up China to Me for different reasons. Some look for a travelog, something to give an accurate picture of the politics and society of mid-war China (it was published in 1944). Some look for a personal account of an outspoken feminist American living in Shanghai and Hong Kong and beyond...

from Kasthu

Emily Hahn was an American who spent 9 years living in China as a journalist, starting in 1935. She lived first in Shanghai, where she had a common-law marriage with a native Chinese and owned a couple of gibbons. During WWII, she lived in Chungking, where she met her future husband Charles Boxer...

from Kasthu

Emily Hahn was an American who spent 9 years living in China as a journalist, starting in 1935. She lived first in Shanghai, where she had a common-law marriage with a native Chinese and owned a couple of gibbons. During WWII, she lived in Chungking, where she met her future husband Charles Boxer...