biography
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Han Suyin
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originally Elizabeth Kuanghu Chow
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| female
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| lived:
| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and doctor, born in Beijing, China. She studied medicine at Beijing, Brussels, and London, and practised in Hong Kong until 1964. Her many novels include Destination Chungking (1942), A Many-splendoured Thing (1952, film 1955), and Four Faces (1963). She also wrote a semi-autobiographical and historical trilogy, The Crippled Tree (1965), A Mortal Flower (1966), and Birdless Summer (1968), as well as The Morning Deluge (1972), The Wind in the Tower (1976), and Han Suyin's China (1987). Later works include Tigers and Butterflies (1990) and the autobiographical Wind in my Sleeve (1992). |
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