Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in Hong Kong

When I was travelling around a bit promoting my 2009 book Through the Looking Glass, a history of the foreign press corps of China from the 1850s to 1949 a number of people remarked that they had not been aware that Ernest Hemingway visited China during the war and travelled reasonably extensively from Hong Kong up to Chungking. Sadly, these days, even fewer people know much about his travelling companion and then wife, the journalist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.

So Stuart Heaver’s recent piece in the South China Morning Post is a good reminder of that trip and those events. I’m happy to say it includes a quote or two from me and the man who wrote the dedicated book on the subject Peter Moreira. As well as the tales of their trip there a number of good photographs of the time and the characters involved. Do give the piece a read.