Re: Dr Han Suyin (Zhou Guang Hu)

[CHUNG Yoon-Ngan <chungyn@mozart.joinet.net.au>]

My friend Professor Teresa Kowalska, a Hakka Forum fan, is often having
telephone conversations with Dr Han. Very soon, Professor Kowalska
will write to our Forum about the well-being of Dr Han. Presently,
the Professor is busy preparing an article on Dr Han for a famous Polish
magazine in Poland.

This is from the Professor. 

>From kowalska@syzyf.cto.us.edu.pl Wed Jul 21 08:45:58 1999
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:16:10 +0200
From: Teresa Kowalska <kowalska@syzyf.cto.us.edu.pl>
To: chungyn@mozart.joinet.net.au
Subject: article for literary magazine

> Dear Yoon-Ngan,

> Meanwhile, I managed to write up an article about Dr. Han for a
> high-quality all Polish literary monthly, its name "Odra" and editorial
> location in the highly intellectual city of Wroclaw (in German Breslau,
> the capital of our south-western province named Lower Silesia; by the
> way, Katowice is the capital of Upper Silesia). I also managed to mail
> it to the editor yesterday. Rector of my university, himself professor
> in English language and literature, was delighted to know that I plan
> such an article and he suggested the name of the magazine, the name of
> the editor to approach etc. So that I hope the paper will eventually be
> published. Rector is very proud of a science professor interested in
> English-language literature, I believe I've already written everything
> about it.

> Immediately I phoned Dr. Han in her Lausanne home, asking her permission
> to write and a 'blessing'. Her first, a bit cool reaction was that
> everyone can write whatever he or she pleases about her, either good, or
> bad, and in both cases she's prepared to say "thank you" to the author.
> She said that she could not allow or forbid such an enterprise to
> anyone, she simply hasn't got enough authority to do so. Then I asked
> her for an up-to-date photograph of hers, to include in my article. She
> agreed, telling me the same thing as she had always been telling before:
> that I should write her a letter referring to our conversation, give my
> full address and a telephone number, and preferably enclose a brief
> outline of my paper as well (she initially asked for the full-length
> paper, but I answered that it was going to be a fourteen-page Polish
> manuscript, not so easy for me to rapidly translate into English). She
> also insisted that I ought to hurry, as in August she's leaving from
> home and going for 2-3 weeks somewhere abroad. Well, we'll wait and see,
> as I've already managed to send her the requested material, my ask for
> her snap, the Polish full-length manuscript and an English summary
> included. This time Dr. Han's 'good-bye' over the phone was emotional
> and exceptionally warm, perhaps for the first time ever. 
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All the best and keep well,

Teresa
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Teresa Kowalska
Institute of Chemistry
Silesian University
9 Szkolna Street
40-006 Katowice, Poland
Fax/phone: (+48-32) 599-978
Home phone: (+48-32) 24-12-162
Mobile phone: (0) 602-675-049
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