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  Han Suyin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Han Suyin (Chinese: 韩素音; pinyin: Hán Sùyīn) (born September 12, 1917), is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Chinese: 周光湖, pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú).
Han Suyin was born in Xinyang, Henan province, China.
In 1938 Han Suyin married Pao H. Tang (Tang Paohuang), a Chinese Nationalist military officer, who was to become a general.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Han_Suyin   (691 words)

  
 VG: Artist Biography: Suyin, Han
Han Suyin's prose is infallibly addressed to a Western audience, with an absolutely idealistic and noble aim to bridge an intellectual and emotional rift between the East and the West.
Han Suyin views Premier Zhou Enlai as a man with modern education and perfect understanding of his people and time, who had realized rather early in life that the social retardation of his people lasting several millennia could not be just skipped over without a fairly violent social eruption.
Han Suyin is not only an expert Sinologist, not only a medical doctor by profession, but also a seasoned psychoanalyst and an exquisite connoisseur of the human heart, which is always one and the same throughout the ages and through the world.
voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/suyin_han.html   (3274 words)

  
 hansuyin
When Han Suyin was young her mother had told her that she had a kinship with the royal family of the Netherlands.
Han Suyin told her that she was Pao’s daughter in the first letter, but the next letter said she was bought from a peasant’s family.
Han Suyin warned Tang Yungmei not to take the American students to her relatives’ houses in case trouble might be brought to them.
www.asiawind.com /hakka/hansuyin.htm   (4171 words)

  
 Tidapathy in the Rubber Republic -- ThingsAsian Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Han Suyin asks herself "whether out of this babel reassembled, a pattern would emerge," and also whether British-Chinese Singapore and the Malay Federation would be unified if granted independence.
Han Suyin views the Emergency as an early source of the idea that Asians form a coherent group, "as if Asia were an entity, when really it was a huge agglomeration of continents and cultures and races and religions and governments....
Suyin's book may be musty, but the dynamics it describes are as fresh - and as flammable - as an oil field in the Caspian Sea.
www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1964.html   (894 words)

  
 Han Suyin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Han Suyin was born on September 12th, EHandler: no quick summary.
Henan (), is a province of the peoples republic of china, located in the central part of the country....
Han Suyin married Pao H. Tang, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/han_suyin.htm   (235 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Eldest Son: Zhou Enlai and the Making of Modern China, 1898-1976 (Kodansha Globe): Books: Han Suyin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Suyin, a historian and the author of the 1952 novel, A Many-Splendoured Thing, is no exception, and it is to her credit that her bias does not prevent her from writing an interesting and reasonable biography.
Unfortunately, author Han Suyin and editor Paul De Angelis fail to bring to life this enigmatic figure who was in many ways responsible for guiding a broken China out of the ashes of Civil War and steering her away from the ill-planned social and economic policies of Mao Zedong.
Han writes from her personal interviews with Premier Zhou and his colleagues, and she presents a full picture of both his accomplishments and mistakes.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568360843?v=glance   (1562 words)

  
 A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin is a autobiographical account of her love affair with Mark Elliot a war ...
Han Suyin has written many books, most based on her life growing up as a Eurasian in China, observing the revolution from the Hong Kong border and then eventually returning to China.
She took Han Suyin while writing her first book, "Destination Chungking." Suyin says her name stands for a little voice that never stops talking.
Suyin in an interview states that she is a person who changes, who adapts; "It’s because of my avidity for learning.
www.shelterbelt.com /ALLASIA/donad.html   (931 words)

  
 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing DVD - Michael Weise Productions
Here is a story of Han Suyin, a strong independent female doctor working in Hong Kong in 1949 -- at the beginning of Communist China.
Later, Suyin married a Chinese General who was killed in the Chinese Civil War a few years before the movie starts.
When a Eurasian widow doctor Han Suyin (Jones) and American journalist Mark Elliot (Holden)They fall in love despite the racial diffrences and the only thing that would separated their love was death.
www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B00008AOTL   (447 words)

  
 A bit too much myth about Zhou Enlai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Han Suyin's biography of one of the revolution's most prominent figures, Zhou Enlai, recaptures the revolution's tremendous liberatory promise but is also captive to its worst anti-socialist features, both aspects which are reflected in Zhou himself.
Han Suyin movingly depicts the gigantic sweep of a revolution which sprouted from the “massive misery” of a China subjected to “invasion, pillage and destruction” from the imperialism of England in the 1840s to Japan in the 1930s, in brutal tandem with Chinese landlords and warlords.
Han Suyin laments that, if Zhou had been alive in 1989, “there would not have been such bad handling of the youth demonstrations”.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1994/145/145p28.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Tsinoy.com : Han Suyin: 'A Many Splendored Writer'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This famous Eurasian writer Han Suyin, the pen name of Elizabeth Guang-Hu Zhou, was born in 1917 into a Hakka family in Henan, China.
Written as an autobiography and intertwined with the history of China before the establishment of the Republic, she wove this chaotic period into her family and her life.
Most of her writings about China were published during the Cold War era and for this reason, she was not a popular writer in our part of the world.
www.tsinoy.com /article_item.php?articleid=620   (866 words)

  
 Han Suyin, Elizabeth Comber, Modern Chinese Asia History Novels, China, Many Splendoured, Su Yin Han
Han Suyin is a prominent writer on modern Chinese and Asian subjects.
She signs her name as Han Suyin or Dr. Elizabeth CK Comber.
Han Suyin has long been based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
www.notsorry.com /hansuyin.html   (1121 words)

  
 Travel Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Han Suyin, a doctor in JB What’s the connection between novelist Han Suyin and Johor Baru?
Han obtained her first degree from Yenching University Peking (Yanjing University) and her honours degree in Science in French from Brussels University, Belgium.
After his death, Han poured her grief into writing A Many Splendoured Thing and it seemed to bring a closure for her.
www.mmail.com.my /Weekly/Travel/article/TTales/20050802114404/Article/index_html   (652 words)

  
 The Ultimate Han Suyin Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Han Suyin, pen name of Elisabeth Comber, maiden name Elizabeth Kuanghu Chow (Zhou Guanghu).
Han Suyin was born on September 12th, 1917 in Xinyang, Henan province, China.
Han Suyin married Pao H. Tang, a chinese militarist, in 1938 and they adopted a girl.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Han_Suyin   (204 words)

  
 THE CRIPPLED TREE - By Han Suyin - Hardback Book
In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama of this history of China from 1885 to 1928.
It contains eyewitness accounts, from family papers of the Sino-French war, of the revolution of 1911 and of the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek.
It is more compelling than history itself and more profound than a biography as it describes how events mould the lives of individuals, and how their private emotions are twisted by the gigantic conflicts of the changing world.
www.biography-clarebooks.co.uk /item3290.htm   (119 words)

  
 Movie Info for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing on MSN Movies
Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong.
Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general.
This, together with the disapproval of Dr. Suyin's tradition-bound relatives and Hong Kong's strict racial laws, forces the couple to carry on their romance in a clandestine fashion.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=399027   (193 words)

  
 Han Suyin Interview with Don Swaim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Han Suyin, talks with Don Swaim in this 1985 interview.
Han Suyin is author of the novels, A Many-Splendoured Thing (made into the 1955 movie Love Is a Many Splendored Thing), Till Morning Comes, Four Faces and The Mountain is Young.
The goal of her latest book,The Enchantress, is to write an account of history as seen through different eyes.
wiredforbooks.org /hansuyin   (207 words)

  
 Many Splendoured Thing, A: an episode, series, and broadcast date guide to the radio programme Many Splendoured Thing, A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1949, Han Suyin, a Eurasian doctor, is working in Hong Kong.
Suyin falls deeply in love with Mark Elliot, an ENGLISH journalist.
Serial: `A Many Splendoured Thing', by Han Suyin, read in eight parts by Pik Sen-Lim.
www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/many_splendoured_thing__a.html   (160 words)

  
 VG: Contributors: Kowalska, Teresa
Teresa Kowalska contributed the page on Han Suyin.
Han Suyin is her greatest literary love: "I consider her as one of the most splendid writers in this ending century, perhaps the most interesting and greatest one, and for me personally she's no. 1."
Han Suyin is not only an expert Sinologist, not only a medical doctor by profession, but also a seasoned psychoanalyst and an exquisite connoisseur of the human heart, which is always one and the same throughout...
voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Contributors/pages/kowalska_teresa.html   (180 words)

  
 Indiaclub.com: Lhasa-The open city : Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is the absorbing account of a vibrant city by Hans Suyin-The first person from abroad to do so in thirteen years.
Contrary to the view that Tibet as a Lamaist paradise, was stripped of it's culture by Chinese invaders the author found Lhasa as a pulsating city whose people, while proud of their heritage, are determined to remove the last traces of a feudal theocracy which prevailed until 1959.
By tracing the region's historical background Hans Suyin shows that close links have existed between Tibet and China since the Seventh century.
www.indiaclub.com /shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=2149   (134 words)

  
 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Cast: Jennifer Jones (as Han Suyin), William Holden, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg.
Based on the memoirs of Han Suyin, this is the story of an Eurasian doctor's tragic love affair with an American correspondent.
Although the love story is the central theme, the film also touches on the subjects of the Korean War, communism and race relations.
home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/splendored.html   (329 words)

  
 phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Re: A picture of Dr Han Suyin
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This is the one I scanned from a book published by the Federated Hakka associations of Malaysia.
Professor Kowalska has translated Dr. Han's "The Crippled Tree" into Polish and has been published in Poland 2 years ago.
www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=4068&t=304   (91 words)

  
 Profile on Han Suyin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Famous Like Me > Writer > S > Han Suyin
Han Suyin (Chinese: 韩素音; pinyin: Hán SùyÄ«n) (born on September 12, 1917 -), is the pen name of Elisabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Chinese: 周光湗, pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú).
In 1955, her best-known work, Many-Splendored Thing, was made into a Hollywood film.
www.famouslikeme.com /3204/article.html   (502 words)

  
 Responses to Texts and Events
In the light of all of the sources about Lady Murasaki, discuss with your group what kind of person you think she was.
For a guide to her works, read 'Gregory Melle's Han Suyin' (scroll down the page to see a partial bibliography).
Write your article about Han Suyin and her current views on China.
www.asiaeducation.edu.au /anthol/reflect/refstud1.htm   (482 words)

  
 HAN SUYIN'S CHINA - By Han Suyin - Hardback Book
HAN SUYIN'S CHINA - By Han Suyin - Hardback Book
An extraordinary new look at China, from one of the world's best-selling authors Han Suyin.
With affection and enthusiasm she explores the untold regions of China, telling the stories, detailing the facts, and calling us to marvel at the enigma that has emerged as modern China.
www.clarebooks.co.uk /item6714.htm   (144 words)

  
 Han Suyin Quotes
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www.worldofquotes.com /author/Han-Suyin/1   (89 words)

  
 Author Han Suyin Remembers Deng As Hard-Headed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BANGALORE, India, Feb 26 (Reuter) - Famed Chinese author Han Suyin
Tainanmen Square, Han Suyin said: "You have to have a dictatorship.
Han Suyin used to be a favorite of China's communist leadersbecause
www.tibet.ca /en/wtnarchive/1997/3/1_2.html   (373 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Crippled Tree (China : Autobiography, History, Book 1): Books: Han Suyin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Amazon.com: The Crippled Tree (China : Autobiography, History, Book 1): Books: Han Suyin
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are.
Suyin, Han: S'il ne reste que l'amour (Price: $15.00)
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0586038361?v=glance   (406 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Winter Love: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other shoppers!
Winter love by Suyin Han, November 13, 2001
In my opinion Winter love is Han Suyin's best novel.This little gem should be on every lesbian's reading list!
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853817449   (135 words)

  
 James Han, Cheap Books, Compare Book Prices in A Click!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Han, Cheap Books, Compare Book Prices in A Click!
The Unknown Cultural Revolution : Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China's Rural Development, 1966-1976 (East Asia)
The Transformation of Aristotelian Political Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century American (Studies in American History (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. by Tomislav Han
www.cheapbooks.info /authors_7/James_Han   (197 words)

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