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Emily Hahn was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 14, 1905, as one of the six children of Isaac Newton Hahn and Hannah Hahn. Her father was a dry goods salesman and her mother was a free-spirited suffragette.
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An introduction to the cuisine of China with colorful illustrations of Chinese dishes accompanied by a spiral bound recipe book.
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1968
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1977
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Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about the people and places she came to know and love -- with an eye for the curious and a heart for the exotic. Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about the people and places she came to know and love -- with an eye for the curious and a heart for the exotic.
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2000
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Leonardo da Vinci was trained to be a painter and, in fact, produced what is arguable the most famous painting in the world, the "Mona Lisa". Yet Leonardo's interests and achievements spread far beyond the world of art. He studied astronomy, botany, anatomy, and geology, and designed and drew plans for hundreds of inventions, many of which fore-shadowed the achievements of men who lived four hundred years after Leonardo died. Emily Hahn brings this quintessential Rennaissance Man to life in her delightful and easy to read biography. Illustrated by Mimi Korach, Cover illustration by Drew Thurston- Volume includes "Contents" and "Index"
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2000
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A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer when Congo Solo was published. Here - restored to the form she had intended - is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing first-hand account of the racism, brutality, sexism, and exploitation that were everyday life realities under Belgium's iron-fisted colonial rule. Until now, the few copies of Congo Solo in circulation were the adulterated version, which the author altered after pressure from her publisher and threats of litigation from the main character's family. This edition makes available a lost treasure of women's travel writing that shocks and impresses, while shedding valuable light on the gender and race politics of the period. A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer when Congo Solo was published. Here - restored to the form she had intended - is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing first-hand account of the racism, brutality, sexism, and exploitation that were everyday life realities under Belgium's iron-fisted colonial rule. Until now, the few copies of Congo Solo in circulation were the adulterated version, which the author altered after pressure from her publisher and threats of litigation from the main character's family. This edition makes available a lost treasure of women's travel writing that shocks and impresses, while shedding valuable light on the gender and race politics of the period.
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2011
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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 Sisters: Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and they appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion. 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 Sisters: Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and they appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion.
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2014
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2014
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Emily Hahn was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 14, 1905, as one of the six children of Isaac Newton Hahn and Hannah Hahn. Her father was a dry goods salesman and her mother was a free-spirited suffragette.
With a love for reading and writing, she initially enrolled in a general arts program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but decided to change her course of study to mining engineering after being prevented from enrolling in a chemistry class predominately taken by engineering students. She graduated from the university in 1924.
After short stints as a mining engineer, Hollywood screen writer, and travel guide in New Mexico, Hahn began a long career as a freelance writer for the New Yorker. She traveled throughout the world and chronicled her adventures for the New Yorker and in numerous volumes of prose. She wrote about her exploits with the Red Cross while she was in Africa in Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North.
Emily also spent several years in China and Hong Kong, where she became acquainted with the Soong family. Her experiences in China are chronicled in The Soong Sisters, China Only Yesterday, 1850-1950: A Century of Change, and China to Me: A Partial Autobiography.
Hahn wrote her last book Eve and the Apes in 1988 when she was in her eighties. She reportedly went into her office at The New Yorker daily, until just a few months before she died.
Her other works include Once Upon a Pedestal: An Informal History of Women’s Lib, On the Side of the Apes: A New Look at the Primates, The Men Who Study Them and What They Have Learned, Eve ond the Apes, Chiang Kai-shek: An Unauthorized Biography, and The Emily Hahn Reader.
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2000Hahn married Charles Boxer in 1945. They had 2 children: Carola Militia and Amanda.
