Emily Hahn
Bio: A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including 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 an illegitimate child.
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. The author of hundreds articles and fifty-two books, Emily Hahn is the author of CHINA TO ME, a literary exploration of her trip to China.
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China to Me: A Partial Autobiography [MultiFormat]
by Emily Hahn
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 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 non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties. 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... more info>> 1944
Words: 202483 - Reading Time: 578-809 min.
Category: General Nonfiction
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The Soong Sisters [MultiFormat]
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In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the extraordinary three Soong Sisters, Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family who had the courage to speak out. Gr... more info>> 1941
Words: 116019 - Reading Time: 331-464 min.
Category: History
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