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Emily Hahn. 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 ...
Feb 19, 1997 · Emily Hahn, an early feminist and a prolific author who wrote 54 books and more than 200 articles for The New Yorker, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. She ...
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. If her behavior was eccentric, it was not without precedent; her convoluted route to Shanghai had taken in a 3,900 kilometer ...
Jun 15, 2020 · Emily Hahn, “Dr. Baldwin” in The New Yorker, 1 Jan 1938. Hahn declared herself to be Shao’s second wife in order to retrieve his precious press from the Japanese-occupied part of Shanghai. But in 1939, when Hahn weaned herself off the opium she and Shao had once shared, their relationship cooled.
- Stephen Lovely
- 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.
Jan 1, 1999 · Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; had an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong just before the outbreak of World War II; was involved in ...
- Ken Cuthbertson
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Feb 18, 1997 · Died. February 18, 1997. Genre. Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction. edit data. 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.
