China to Me. A Partial Autobiography

First Edition. Red hard cloth with the slightly chipped dust-jacket. pp [vi] + 429. Old tape stains to endpapers. An excellent copy of an uncommon title. Emily "Mickey" Hahn was an American journalist and considered an early feminist. She was the author of 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories. In 1935 she travelled to Shanghai, where she taught English for three years and became involved with prominent figures such as Sir Victor Sassoon. She lived in an apartment in Shanghai's red light district, and became romantically involved with the Chinese poet and publisher Shao Xunmei who introduced her to smoking opium, to which she became addicted.