scmp.com: Han Suyin loved China but turned a blind eye to its excesses
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Han Suyin
Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin. She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East and Southeast Asia, and published autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China. These writings gained her a reputation as an ardent and articulate supporter of the Chinese Communist Revolutio…
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science · Chinese-Belgian-British physician and author (1916–2012) · midwife · writer · non-fiction writer · novelist · autobiographer · physician · author · sinologist · also Han Suyin, Elizabeth Comber, Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou, Suyin
Born 12 September 1917 · Died 2 November 2012 · Q16400
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2012· 8 entries
The Boston Globe: Han Suyin, wrote novel that became film ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’
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Nepali Times: Han Suyin's Nepal
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Nepali Times: Han Suyin took Nepal to the world
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Standard-Examiner: Han Suyin, Chinese-born author of ‘A Many-Splendored Thing,’ dies at 95
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Global Times: Chinese-born writer Han Suyin dies in Switzerland
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Washington Post: Han Suyin, Chinese-born author of ‘A Many-Splendoured Thing,’ dies at 95
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Died 2012-11-02.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Nanjing Normal University (1996).
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1982· 1 entry
With the second part called Phoenix Harvest
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1980· 1 entry
“Interview with Sylvester Stallone”
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1974· 1 entry
Was the featured speaker at the founding national convention of the US-China Peoples Friendship Association in Los Angeles
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1960· 1 entry
Han married Vincent Ratnaswamy, an Indian colonel, moving to India then later residing in Hong Kong and Switzerland, where she remained, living in Lausanne
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for A Many-Splendoured Thing (1956).
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Published the novel And the Rain My Drink, whose description of the guerrilla war of Chinese rubber workers against the government was perceived to be very anti-British, and Comber is said to have resigned as acting
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1955· 2 entries
Han contributed efforts to the establishment of Nanyang University in Singapore
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Her best-known novel, A Many-Splendoured Thing, was filmed as Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1953).
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Adopted another daughter, Chew Hui-Im (Hueiying), in Singapore
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1952· 1 entry
Married Leon Comber, a British officer in the Malayan Special Branch, and went with him to Johor, Malaya (present-day Malaysia), where she worked in the Johor Bahru General Hospital and opened a clinic in Johor Bahru
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1948· 1 entry
And in 1949 went to Hong Kong to practice medicine at the Queen Mary Hospital
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1947· 1 entry
While she was still in London, her husband died in action during the Chinese Civil War
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1944· 1 entry
Went with her daughter to London, where her husband Pao had been posted two years earlier as military attaché, to continue her studies in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital
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1940· 1 entry
And her husband adopted their daughter, Tang Yungmei
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1938· 1 entry
Returned to China, and married Tang Pao-Huang (Chinese: 唐保璜), a Chinese Nationalist military officer, who was to become a general
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1933· 1 entry
Was admitted to Yenching University where she felt she was discriminated against as a Eurasian
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-09-12.
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