HISTORIANS, AUTHORS AND LOVERS : THE 60-YEAR PARTNERSHIP OF CHARLES BOXER AND EMILY HAHN歷史學家，作家和戀人：查爾斯‧博克塞和項美麗的六十年伴侣關係
Richard Pflederer’s article reconstructs, through a memorial lens, the long-standing partnership between the British historian Charles R. Boxer and the American writer Emily Hahn, proposing that the couple’s intellectual productivity resulted as much from their singular personal trajectories as from...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40047/2361 |
| Summary: | Richard Pflederer’s article reconstructs, through a memorial lens, the long-standing partnership between the British historian Charles R. Boxer and the American writer Emily Hahn, proposing that the couple’s intellectual productivity resulted as much from their singular personal trajectories as from persistent thematic convergences. The narrative traces the key moments of their meeting, romance, and life together—from the pre-World War II context in the Far East to the war period in Hong Kong, culminating in a long cohabitation in the United Kingdom—to explain how two distinct literary projects ultimately reinforced one another. Methodologically, the text is grounded in a biographical reading combined with an interpretative survey of the works and fields of interest of the two authors: Boxer, focused on Portuguese and Dutch explorations and expansion in Africa, Brazil, and Asia; Hahn, dedicated to historical biographies, non-fiction texts, novels, and works of "human interest," as well as writings on figures such as Stamford Raffles and the Soong family. As its main conclusions, Pflederer suggests that the relationship between historians and authors, mediated by love and a life in motion, contributed to renewing the understanding of European interaction with indigenous peoples and to sustaining a bibliographic output that spanned virtually the entire twentieth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |