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  • FRACTURED EMERALD: IRELAND
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    FRACTURED EMERALD: IRELAND
    EMILY HAHN
    The New Yorker contributor's fascinating account of Irish history from legendary kings to occupation, independence, and modern political strife. The author of  The Soong Sisters and  China to Me turns her observant and discerning eye to the oft‑troubled land of Ireland. In a magisterial combination of historical research and keen personal observation on the scene, Emily Hahn gi...

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  • ENGLAND TO ME
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    ENGLAND TO ME
    EMILY HAHN
    Author of such celebrated and acclaimed works as  The Soong Sisters,  China to Me, and  Fractured Emerald: Ireland, Emily Hahn has been called by the  New Yorker "a forgotten American literary treasure." Now Hahn is reintroduced to a new generation of readers, bringing to light her richly textured voice and unique perspective on a world that continues to exist through both hist...

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  • HONG KONG HOLIDAY
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    HONG KONG HOLIDAY
    EMILY HAHN
    Author of such celebrated and acclaimed works as  The Soong Sisters,  China to Me, and  Fractured Emerald: Ireland, Emily Hahn has been called by the  New Yorker "a forgotten American literary treasure." Now Hahn is reintroduced to a new generation of readers, bringing to light her richly textured voice and unique perspective on a world that continues to exist through both hist...

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  • MR. PAN
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    MR. PAN
    EMILY HAHN
    Mr. Pan is no highly-placed official. Mr. Pan is the Mr. Smith of China—an ordinary man with extraordinary reach—and China, like America, depends as much on its Mr. Pans as on its powerful and world famous officials. Here, in a series of linked vignettes, you'll get a glimpse into a new way of life—Mr. Pan at work, Mr. Pan with his father, Mr. Pan with his docile wife, Pei-yu. ...

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  • CHINA TO ME
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    CHINA TO ME
    EMILY HAHN
    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 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...

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  • MISS JILL
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    MISS JILL
    EMILY HAHN
    A novel about an enterprising Shanghai streetwalker from the "American literary treasure" and author of the memoir China to Me ( The New Yorker).   Meet Miss Jill, a young woman pursuing the oldest profession in prewar Shanghai. Fifteen, blonde, and full of personality, Jill begins her career as a Japanese banker's mistress. Soon after, she becomes a European prostitute in the ...

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  • NO HURRY TO GET HOME
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    NO HURRY TO GET HOME
    EMILY HAHN
    A fascinating memoir by a free-spirited New Yorker writer, whose wanderlust led her from the Belgian Congo to Shanghai and beyond. Originally published in 1970, under the title  Times and Places, this book is a collection of twenty-three of her articles from the  New Yorker, published between 1937 and 1970. Well reviewed upon first publication, the book was re-published under t...

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  • ONCE UPON A PEDESTAL
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    ONCE UPON A PEDESTAL
    EMILY HAHN
    A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including 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 an illegitimate child. Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that charact...

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  • THE SOONG SISTERS
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    THE SOONG SISTERS
    EMILY HAHN
    "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." — The New York Times Book Review   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 siste...

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  • THE EARLY YEARS
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    THE EARLY YEARS
    EMILY HAHN
    Memoirs of an exotic, unconventional life in Asia and Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, from a colorful, prolific New Yorker writer ahead of her time.   China to Me: A proud feminist and fearless traveler, Emily Hahn set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, wandering, carousing, living, loving—and writing. During her trav...

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  • INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
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    INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
    EMILY HAHN
    Portraits of pivotal American feminists and three of the most powerful women in twentieth-century China by the "quintessential New Yorker narrator" ( The New York Times).   Once Upon a Pedestal: After living an unconventional and exotic life for decades, New Yorker writer Emily Hahn was in her late sixties when this book was first published in 1974. As the Women's Movement cont...

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  • EMILY HAHN ON CHINA
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    EMILY HAHN ON CHINA
    EMILY HAHN
    Chinese history is brought to vivid life by the "quintessential New Yorker narrator" and author of The Soong Sisters, who lived in China from 1935 to 1941 ( The New York Times).   Chiang Kai-Shek: As the head of the Nationalist Party, Chiang led the Republic of China for over two decades from 1927 through the Japanese invasion, World War II, and the civil war that ended with a ...

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  • FRANCIE
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    FRANCIE
    EMILY HAHN
    Seventeen-year-old Francie Nelson is charming, saucy, and spoiled. Her father thinks it would be a good idea for her to see how other people live—in this case, the other people are the English. So she packs up and, with heels dragging the whole way, travels to what looks, at first, like the land of gloom. Her British fog lifts when she meets some boys. If only she didn't feel s...

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  • FRANCIE AGAIN
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    FRANCIE AGAIN
    EMILY HAHN
    After her sojourn in England, vivacious Francie Nelson strikes out on her own—but this time she's not reluctant to do it. Her goal? To become a famous artist. Unfortunately, after she unexpectedly ends up spending a year in Portugal, she is required to serve as companion to her ailing Aunt Lollie. Alas, the art lessons she so longed for must be set aside. Oh, but wait! Maybe th...

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  • FRANCIE COMES HOME
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    FRANCIE COMES HOME
    EMILY HAHN
    Francie, who has been traveling through Europe for more than five years, now finds herself resentful upon returning to her Midwest hometown Jefferson to deal with a family crisis. When she gets home, Francie confronts a crisis of her own . . . all of her old friends are married or otherwise leading what they deem as exciting lives. There may be no place like home, but compared ...

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  • CHIANG KAI-SHEK
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    CHIANG KAI-SHEK
    EMILY HAHN
    An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan, from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China when he was head of state In 1911, 24-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was an obscure Chinese student completing his military training in Japan, the only country...

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  • CHINA ONLY YESTERDAY, 1850–1950
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    CHINA ONLY YESTERDAY, 1850–1950
    EMILY HAHN
    A fascinating journey through 100 years of Chinese history, beginning with the historic Treaty of Nanking and ending with Mao Tse-tung's creation of the Chinese People's Republic, by the the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China from 1935 to 1941   For centuries, China's code of behavior was incomprehensible to Westerners whom the Chinese viewed as irredeemable ...

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