Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share China to Me: A Partial Autobiography Audiobook by Emily Hahn
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
China to Me: A Partial Autobiography Audiobook by Emily Hahn
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 346120
Title: China to Me: A Partial Autobiography
Author: Emily Hahn
Narrator: Nancy Wu
Format: Unabridged
Length: 22:03:40
Language: English
Release date: 11-13-18
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Action & Adventure, Asian American Literature
Summary:
A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II
Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahns 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, lovingand writing.
Many of the pieces in China to Me were first published as the work of a roving reporter in the New Yorker. 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 The Soong Sisters; battles an acquired addiction to opium; and has a child with Charles Boxer, a married British intelligence officer.
In this unflinching glimpse of a vanished world, Hahn examines not so much the thorny complications of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinaryor extraordinarypeople caught up in the swells of history. At heart, China to Me is a self-portrait of a fascinating woman ahead of her time.
Contact: [email protected]
View all episodes
By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 346120
Title: China to Me: A Partial Autobiography
Author: Emily Hahn
Narrator: Nancy Wu
Format: Unabridged
Length: 22:03:40
Language: English
Release date: 11-13-18
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Action & Adventure, Asian American Literature
Summary:
A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II
Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahns 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, lovingand writing.
Many of the pieces in China to Me were first published as the work of a roving reporter in the New Yorker. 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 The Soong Sisters; battles an acquired addiction to opium; and has a child with Charles Boxer, a married British intelligence officer.
In this unflinching glimpse of a vanished world, Hahn examines not so much the thorny complications of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinaryor extraordinarypeople caught up in the swells of history. At heart, China to Me is a self-portrait of a fascinating woman ahead of her time.
Contact: [email protected]