Dr Han Suyin

[CHUNG Yoon-Ngan <chungyn@mozart.collective.com.au>]

   Dr Han Suyin
 
   Dr Han Suyin was born Zhou Guang-Hu (glorious lake) into a Hakka family
in 1917 in Henan province China. Her ancestral family was from Meixian, 
Guangdong province.

   She obtained her first degree in Chinese in Yenching University Peking.
Her honours degree of science was in French from Brussels University in
Belgium. She was graduated as a doctor in London University in England.
She speaks Hakka, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, French and English.  

   She worked in the Hong Kong government hospital after her graduation
a doctor.

Followings are the books written by Dr Han Suyin in English.

(1) Destination Chungking: 
    about the war against the Japanese (1938 to 1942).

(2) A Many-Splendoured Thing : 
    about Hong Kong (1949 to 1952)
    was made into a movie entitled; Love is a many splendoured thing 
    and the song by the same name sung by Nat King Cole.

(3) .....And The Rain My Drink: 
   about Malaya during the Emergency (1952 to 1956), 
   Communists, mostly Hakka People, against the
   British Colonial Administration. 

(4) The Crippled Tree : 
    Autobiography and History 1 (China 1885 to 1928), 
    about her Hakka family

(5) A Mortal Flower : 
    Autobiography and History 2 (China 1928 to 1938), 
    about the civil war and the resistance against the Japanese invasion.  

(6) Birdless Summer : 
    Autobiograghy and History 3 (China 1938 to 1948) 
    about the civil war between the KMT and the CCP.

(7) My House Has Two Doors : 
    Autography and History 4 (Malaya 1949 to 1965) 
    about Malaya and her life outside China.

(8) Phoenix Harvest : 
    Autography and History 5 (France 1966 to 1979) 
    about the Cultural Revolution in China.

(9) The Morning Deluge :
    about Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Revolution 1893 to 1953.

(10) China in the Year 2001:
     about the new generation in China.

(11) Lhasa, The Open City:
     about her journey to Tibet in 1976

(12) Wind In The Tower:
     about Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Revolution 1949 to 1975
 
(13) Till Morning Comes:
     about the enduring love between an American female reporter 
     and a Chinese doctor from 1939 to after the Cultural Revolution.

(14) Asia Today:
     about the awakening of Asian countries.

(15) The Mountain Is Young:
     about India and Nepal
 
(16) Four Faces:
     about Cambodia

(16) Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love
 
(17) Two Loves
     
CHUNG Yoon-Ngan.