Hemingway on the China Front His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn / by Peter Moreira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreira, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--China.

World War, 1939-1945.

Americans--China--History--20th century.

Americans.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Espionage, American--China--History--20th century.

Espionage, American.

China--History--1937-1945.

China.

Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998--Travel--China.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Travel--China.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014

Language Note:

English

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 America's 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 Hemingway's 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 file--and try to adapt to each other's strong egos--in 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.

Contents:

1. Marriage in Wyoming

2. Voyage

3. Hemingway's Hong Kong

4. CNAC

5. Gellhorn's Hong Kong

6. The Canton front

7. Return from the front

8. Chungking

9. Chengtu

10. Chou En-Lai

11. Chiang Kai-Shek

12. The Burma road

13. The journey home

14. The honeymoon is over

App. I. Letter to Morgenthau

App. II. Chronology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61234-303-1

OCLC:

755569955