Ebook: Shanghai grand: forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world
Author: Grescoe Taras, Hahn Emily, Sassoon Elias Victor
- Tags: Adventure and adventurers, Adventure and adventurers--China--Shanghai, Aliens, Aliens--China--Shanghai, Americans, Americans--China--Shanghai, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Friendship, HISTORY / Asia / China, Man-woman relationships, Manners and customs, Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945--Social aspects--China--Shanghai, Social aspects, Travel, Biography, Travel writing, Biographies, Nonfiction, History, Hahn Emily -- 1905-1997 -- Travel -- China -- Shanghai, Hahn Emily -- 1905-1997 -- Relations with men, S
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
- City: China;Shanghai;Shanghai (China
- Edition: First U.S. edition
- Language: English
- epub
On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. ??
Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly fifty years, and play an integral part in opening Asia up to the West. But at the height of the Depression, "Mickey" Hahn, had just arrived in Shanghai nursing a broken heart after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, convinced she would never love again. After entering Sassoon's glamorous Cathay Hotel, Hahn is absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and the colourful gangster named Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet from an illustrious family, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials,...