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- Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the romantic Far East. What they found was a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits. And their trip proved to be the beginning of the end of their marriage.
When the U.S. Treasury Department hired Ernest Hemingway as a spy in China in 1941, it awakened a new obsession in AmericaÆs most adventuresome author. The great literary man of action reveled in being a government operative, while his journalist wife championed the anti-Japanese resistance of Chiang Kai-shek. Hemingway on the China Front is the first book to track HemingwayÆs progress as a spy in Asia during the war, defining his duties as he saw fit. Author Peter Moreira follows Hemingway and Gellhorn as they seek stories to fileùand try to adapt to each otherÆs strong egosùin dangerous, uncomfortable, exotic places in the throes of war. Well-versed in Asian history and culture, Moreira also adeptly provides context of time and place. All fans of Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn will want this book.
When the U.S. Treasury Department hired Ernest Hemingway as a spy in China in 1941, it awakened a new obsession in AmericaÆs most adventuresome author. The great literary man of action reveled in being a government operative, while his journalist wife championed the anti-Japanese resistance of Chiang Kai-shek. Hemingway on the China Front is the first book to track HemingwayÆs progress as a spy in Asia during the war, defining his duties as he saw fit. Author Peter Moreira follows Hemingway and Gellhorn as they seek stories to fileùand try to adapt to each otherÆs strong egosùin dangerous, uncomfortable, exotic places in the throes of war. Well-versed in Asian history and culture, Moreira also adeptly provides context of time and place. All fans of Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn will want this book.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xviii
- 1. Marriage in Wyoming
- pp. 1-12
- 3. Hemingway’s Hong Kong
- pp. 27-44
- 5. Gellhorn’s Hong Kong
- pp. 53-70
- 6. The Canton Front
- pp. 71-92
- 7. Return from the Front
- pp. 93-104
- 8. Chungking
- pp. 105-118
- 9. Chengtu
- pp. 119-126
- 10. Chou En-Lai
- pp. 127-134
- 11. Chiang Kai-Shek
- pp. 135-148
- 12. The Burma Road
- pp. 149-158
- 13. The Journey Home
- pp. 145-170
- 14. The Honeymoon Is Over
- pp. 185-200
- Appendix I: Letter to Morgenthau
- pp. 201-208
- Appendix II: Chronology
- pp. 209-212
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 235-238
- About the Author
- p. 245
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612343037
Related ISBN(s)
9781574888829
MARC Record
OCLC
899262155
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No