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Emily "Mickey" Hahn (Chinese: 項美麗 ( pronunciation in Shanghainese /項ɦɑ͂ 美me麗li/), January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and writer. Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 54 books and more than 200 ...
Jan 28, 2020 · Emily Hahn was a journalist, author and adventurer who lived in Shanghai from 1935 to 1939. She had a scandalous affair with a Chinese poet, an opium addiction, a pet gibbon and many influential friends and enemies in the city.
Jun 15, 2020 · Emily Hahn was a journalist, writer and adventurer who had a scandalous affair with a Chinese poet and publisher, Shao Xunmei, in 1930s Shanghai. She wrote about their romance and the city's culture and politics in The New Yorker and other publications.
Jan 28, 2020 · Emily Hahn was brilliant, beautiful and shameless. Arriving in city in 1935, she rapidly scandalized Shanghai society by taking a Chinese lover, developing an addiction to opium and owning a pet gibbon named Mr. Mills.
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- The Soong Sisters. The Soong sisters—Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling—were central figures in an unusual political family.
- Mr. Pan. Mr. Pan is a collection of stories Hahn wrote for The New Yorker while stationed in Shanghai. They chronicle her relationship with a man named Pan Heh-ven—who, in fact, was poet Shao Xunmei—with whom Hahn developed a deep bond during her time there.
- China to Me. Some of Hahn's most important nonfiction work focuses on China, and for good reason. While on assignment for The New Yorker, she lived in Shanghai's red light district and forged a complicated but thrilling path that had her rubbing shoulders with the region's most important and iconic figures.
- England to Me. As the Japanese launched their attack on Pearl Harbor, they also invaded Hong Kong (which was then a British colony). Hahn fled Shanghai for England, where she settled down with her husband—British major Charles Boxer—on his estate.
May 20, 2015 · Described as “ a forgotten American literary treasure” by The New Yorker, Emily Hahn was an engineer until it bored her, a Red Cross worker in the Belgian Congo until she decided to walk across...
Feb 18, 1997 · Emily "Mickey" Hahn was called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine; she was the author of 52 books and more than 180 articles and stories. Her father was a hardware salesman and her mother a suffragette.
