Emily Hahn

Emily Hahn (Chinese项 美丽, born January 14, 1905 in St. Louis, Missouri, † February 18, 1997 in Manhattan, New York City ) is an American journalist and author. It was designated by the New Yorker magazine as a hidden American literary treasure. She was the author of 52 books and over 180 articles and stories. Her works in the 20th century, played a special role in the development of Asia by the West.

Life

Emily Hahn was one of six children of a salesman and a self-employed mother. Her nickname was Mickey. When Emily was 15, she moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois.

China and Hong Kong

Your years in Shanghai, China ( from 1935 until the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, 1941) were the most turbulent of their lives. There she became acquainted with prominent figures in the former Shanghai, such as the Sir Victor Sassoon wealthy. She had the Angewohnkeit to appear with her dressed pet on dinner parties.

As a writer for the New Yorker, she lived in an apartment in a richer district of Shanghai. Here she made the acquaintance of the Chinese poet and publisher Sinmay Zau (邵 洵 美, Shao Xunmei ). He gave her the opportunity to write biographies of the influential Soong sisters. Song Qingling was married to Sun Yat-sen, Song Meiling with Chiang Kai- shek.

Hahn often visited Sinmays house, which was rather unusual for a Western woman in the 1930s. Shanghai was divided at the time of the Treaty of Humen between China and the Westerschelde. Sinmay was the one who Emily Hahn had inaugurated the practice of smoking opium, after which it was dependent. Later, she wrote " Though I had always wanted to be on opium addict, I can not claimsoft did as the reason I went to China. - No hurry to get home " ( German: " Although I always wanted to be an opium addict, I can not say that that was the reason why I went to China I was in no hurry to go home ". . ).

After moving to Hong Kong, she began an affair with Charles Ralph Boxer, the local chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service. According to a Time article, which appeared in December 1944, Hahn decided " [ ... ] did she needed the steadying influence of a baby, but doubted if She Could not have one. " ( German: " [ ... ] that they the stabilizing influence a baby needs, but doubted if she could have one "). Replied the unhappy married Major Charles Boxer: " Nonsense! [ ... ] I'll let you have one " ( German: " Nonsense I'll give you one! " ). And so her daughter Carola Militia Boxer was born in Hong Kong on 17 October 1941.

When the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, Boxer was interned in a POW camp and rooster was questioned. Cock in her book China to Me ( 1944) that she had to teach English in return for food Japanese officials. Once she had beaten the Japanese chief of intelligence in the face. Before it was returned in 1943, the man came to see her again and he has repulsed them. China to Me was an instant success.

According to Roger Angell of the New Yorker, Hahn was something truly rare:

"Rooster what, in truth, something rare: a woman deeply, almost domestically, at home in the world. Driven by curiosity and energy, she went there and did that, and then wrote about it without fuss. "

"A woman, rather domesticated, at home in the world. Driven by curiosity and energy that went to where she wanted, and then writing without a lot of fuss about it. "

Return to the U.S.

In 1945, she married boxer who was interned during this time by the Japanese. Your Reunion - their love story that could be seen from the letters published by Hahn, made ​​headlines in the United States. They settled in Dorset, England at " Conygar " down here Boxer had inherited a large property.

In 1948, the second daughter, Amanda Boxer came (now a theater and television actress in London) to the world.

Hahn found the family life too restrictive, so they took 1950 her own apartment in New York City, and visited her husband and children in England only from time to time. She continued to write articles for the New Yorker, for example, the biographies of Aphra Behn, James Brooke, Fanny Burney, Chiang Kai- shek, DH Lawrence and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

In 1978 she published Look Who's Talking. In this book, she dealt with the controversial issue of animal -human communication (her personal favorite among her non-fiction books ). In 1988, when she was in her eighties, she wrote her last book Eve and the Apes.

Hahn went regularly to their editorial office before she died on 18 February 1997 at the age of 92 years. Cause of death was complications after surgery of their destroyed femur.

Published in 1998, the Canadian author Ken Cuthbertson 's biography Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn. Nobody Said not to go, was one of their characteristic sayings.

Publications

Purple Passage: A Novel About a Lady Both Famous and Fantastic (published in the UK as Aphra Behn (1951 ) )

Mary, Queen of Scots James Brooke of Sarawak: A Biography of Sir James Brooke Meet the British (with Charles Roetter and Harford Thomas )

Chiang Kai- shek: An Unauthorized Biography

Spousery Diamond: The Spectacular Story of the Earth 's Greatest Treasure and Man 's Greatest Greed Leonardo da Vinci

Aboab: First Rabbi of the Americas Around the World With Nellie Bly

Indo

Animal Gardens

Recipes: Chinese Cooking