Mr. Pan: A Memoir is a 1942 book by Emily Hahn, published by Doubleday Company. [1]
The book includes a series of stories written for The New Yorker, [2] purportedly about a man named Pan Heh-ven, [3] who in reality was Shao Xunmei (Zau Sinmay). [4]
Marianne Hauser of The New York Times stated that the book "will be for a great many readers one of the most delightfully distracting and certainly one of the least political reading experiences of this season." [3] Kirkus Reviews stated that the book was "Perceptive, highlighted, amusing pictures of the often incomprehensibilities of Chinese psychology." [1]
[...]and Zau Sinmay, a Shanghainese poet and publisher.[...]Hahn's real-life affair with Zau ended when she quit her own opium habit
Mr. Pan: A Memoir is a 1942 book by Emily Hahn, published by Doubleday Company. [1]
The book includes a series of stories written for The New Yorker, [2] purportedly about a man named Pan Heh-ven, [3] who in reality was Shao Xunmei (Zau Sinmay). [4]
Marianne Hauser of The New York Times stated that the book "will be for a great many readers one of the most delightfully distracting and certainly one of the least political reading experiences of this season." [3] Kirkus Reviews stated that the book was "Perceptive, highlighted, amusing pictures of the often incomprehensibilities of Chinese psychology." [1]
[...]and Zau Sinmay, a Shanghainese poet and publisher.[...]Hahn's real-life affair with Zau ended when she quit her own opium habit