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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 articles ...
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.
- 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.
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...
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.
Emily Hahn (1905-1997) was a prolific journalist and author who contributed at least 200 poems, articles and works of fiction to The New Yorker over an astonishing 68-year span—from 1928 to 1996. As the title suggests, I am merely scratching surface, and will devote a post to her in the near future.
Set aside Emily Hahn's addiction to opium smoking her biography tells of the life I would have liked to live. "Mickey" (Emily Hahn's nickname) lived her life the way she wanted to live it. She was the first woman to graduate in mining, from the University of Wisconsin, in 1928.
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