Writing Lives in Emily Hahn's China
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works (RGC: 12, 32, 41, 45) › Chapter in research book/monograph/textbook (Author)
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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China |
| Subtitle of host publication | Modernism, Travel, and Form |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 71-94 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780367815400 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367415983, 9781032088150 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
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| Name | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature |
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| DOI | DOI |
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| Permanent Link | https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publications/publication(7affca3a-4eb7-42df-ad9c-a1a292f70c7e).html |
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the writings of the American author Emily Hahn and situates her work within the evolving historical context of mid-twentieth-century China. During her nine years in China, Hahn became a well-known figure in America, offering her readers insights into a changing cultural and political landscape from intimate and personal perspectives. This chapter discusses a number of Hahn’s works including The Soong Sisters (1941), her best-selling autobiography China to Me (1944), and her novels Steps of the Sun (1940) and Miss Jill (1949). By examining Hahn’s movements and the travels of her characters, this chapter argues that China’s semicolonial spaces served as a transformative context through which mid-twentieth-century modern and cosmopolitanism identities could be written and performed.
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Writing Lives in Emily Hahn's China. / Mather, Jeffrey.
Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form. New York : Routledge, 2020. p. 71-94 (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature).Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works (RGC: 12, 32, 41, 45) › Chapter in research book/monograph/textbook (Author)
