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]

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  1. ^ a b "Mr. Pan". Kirkus Reviews. 1942. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  2. ^ Sanderson, Daniel (June 2010). "T'IEN HSIA Emily Hahn Does 'All-Under-Heaven'". China Heritage Quarterly. Australia National University. ISSN 1833-8461. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  3. ^ a b Hauser, Marianne (1942-05-24). "Shanghai Bohemian; MR. PAN. By Emily Hahn". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  4. ^ Grescoe, Taras (2017-04-11). "Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-30. [...]and Zau Sinmay, a Shanghainese poet and publisher.[...]Hahn's real-life affair with Zau ended when she quit her own opium habit
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