Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue on the eve of the Second World War
Grescoe, Taras2016
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On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the 20th century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the illustrious Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily 'Mickey' Hahn arrived there at the height of the Depression. A legendary New Yorker journalist, Hahn's vivid writing would play a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. But on reaching Shanghai, Hahn was nursing a broken heart after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter; she was convinced she would never love again. Checking in to Sassoon's glittering Cathay Hotel, Hahn was 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 Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen.
Main title:
Author:
Grescoe, Taras, author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2016.
Collation:
xiii, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press.Map on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781447253433 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
610335
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Central Library | Adult non-fiction | 951.132 GRE | Available |