Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world

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Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world

Title remainder

forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world

Statement of responsibility

Taras Grescoe

Creator

• trueGrescoe, Taras

Author

• trueGrescoe, Taras

Subject

• trueAmerican people
• trueAmerican people in foreign countries
• Americans -- China | Shanghai -- Biography
• trueAmericans in Shanghai, China
• Biographies
• Cathay Hotel (Shanghai, China) -- History
• Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 -- Relations with men
• Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997 -- Travel -- China | Shanghai
• trueLove triangles
• Noncitizens -- China | Shanghai -- Biography
• Sassoon, Elias Victor, 1881-1961 -- Friends and associates
• Shanghai (China) -- Biography
• Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• trueShanghai, China -- Social life and customs
• trueSino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945
• Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Social aspects -- China | Shangahi
• Travel writing
• Adventure and adventurers -- China | Shanghai -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiography
• Travel writing
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"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 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, convinced she will never love again. After checking in to 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 a 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, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees--places her innate curiosity will lead her to explore first hand. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists rise to power"--

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueEngaging

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 951./132042092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography