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Emily Hahn: "Nobody Said Not to Go"
On this day in 1905 Emily Hahn was born. Hahn would run away to the Congo, be the concubine of a Shanghai poet, have a child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong, be a pioneer in environmentalism, and write fifty-two books. Roger Angell described her as The New Yorker's "Belle Geste"; biographer Ken Cuthbertson chose her most characteristic line as his title: "Nobody Said Not to Go." |
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A Celebration of Women Writers
An annotated bibliography offers a chronological index of works by the author, split into the following categories: autobiography, biography, fiction, humor, juvenile literature, non-fiction, short stories, and travel. |  | Article: "The Big Smoke"
Find an article by Hahn, original published in The New Yorker, about the widespread use of opium in 1930s Shanghai.
"As a newcomer, I couldn't have known that a lot of the drug was being used here, there, and everywhere in town. I had no way of recognizing the smell, though it pervaded the poorer districts. I assumed that the odor, something like burning caramel or those herbal cigarettes smoked by asthmatics, was just part of the mysterious effluvia produced in Chinese cookhouses. Walking happily through side streets and alleys, pausing here and there to let a rickshaw or a cart trundle by, I would sniff and move on, unaware that someone close at hand was indulging in what the books called that vile, accursed drug. Naturally I never saw a culprit, since even in permissive Shanghai opium smoking was supposed to be illegal...." | |
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The TinL masthead features photography by
Natasha D'Schommer
, and the book art featured is by Jim Rosenau.
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