cover image China to Me

China to Me

Emily Hahn. Beacon Press (MA), $9.95 (429pp) ISBN 978-0-8070-7101-4

Hahn (Eve and the Apes) was considered scandalous when she published this 1944 memoir of her nine years in China and Hong Kong. Contemporary readers will discover that the keen prose is suffused with an intellectual freedom and freshness of perspective that vivify the concerns of a long-gone world. (June)