Re: Dr Han Suyin

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

Hello Dixie,

All Han Suyin's books are in English.

This book My House Has Two Doors is partly about Johore and 
Singapore during the period from 1952 to 1956.
Her surgery was in Johore Bahru and she was an advisor to
the then Nanyang University.

....And The Rain My Drink is about the resettling of the Hakka  
squatters into new villages in a Hakka town called Yong Peng in 
the State of Johore. I am sure you have been to Yong Peng. 
Last year I stayed in a Yong Peng oil palm plantation for 
two weeks.

Hope you can find Han Suyin's books in the libraries in Singapore. 

I wonder if you have read or known about this book called 
"Sold For Silver" by a Singaporean Hakka girl called 
Lin Qiu Mei or Janet Lim. It is her autobiography and about the 
Japanese occupation of Singapore.
Last time I heard about the author was that she was the 
Chief Matron in a Singapore Government hospital.  

CHUNG Yoon-Ngan.