{"title":"Emily Hahn","description":"A 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.","products":[{"product_id":"the-soong-sisters-paperback","title":"The Soong Sisters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 three extraordinary Soong sisters--Eling, Chingling and Mayling--who would each marry historic figures. Told with wit and verve by \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e correspondent Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong sisters reveals the story of China through both World Wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[A] first-rate reportorial job on three distinguished women.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A spirited, well-informed book . . . a fascinating saga . . . Hahn skillfully interweaves the personal material which she has collected in abundance with some indispensable background knowledge of Chinese history.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367069745375,"sku":"9781497648708","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IXhKQf1a_-9781497648708.webp?v=1789102303"},{"product_id":"china-to-me-a-partial-autobiography-paperback","title":"China to Me: A Partial Autobiography - Paperback","description":"\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370471162079,"sku":"9781497638266","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D0LbFPCG4_9781497638266.webp?v=1789161402"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/emily-hahn.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}