The new issue of the China Heritage Quarterly is now online, with a focus on Shanghai. Here’s some highlights:
Emily Hahn Does ‘All-Under-Heaven’
A Daniel Sanderson article about wild woman Emily ‘Mickey’ Hahn and her relationship with poet Sinmay Zau in 1930s Shanghai.
“She smoked large cigars, drank with gusto and maintained a chaotic love life across several continents, all the while providing a steady series of witty, well-turned essays and stories to Harold Ross, her editor at The New Yorker.”
Richard Rigby’s take on a history of Shanghai through the lens of the Republican era comics of Sapajou, a Russian expatriate.
Yawning Heights: Chan Koon-chung’s Harmonious China
Linda Jaivin’s book review of the of 2013: The Fat Years. See also Danwei interview with author Chan Koon-chung.
The History Lessons of Yuan Tengfei
Featuring Danwei’s very own Eric Mu: a repost of our May article about a Beijing history teacher who went viral, including commentary from China Heritage Quarterly Editor Geremie R. Barmé.