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Han Suyin — Atlantic-Little, Brown ($3.75). All Hong Kong knew about Han Suyin’s love affair with Mark Elliott. They were inseparable, walking the streets of the city and the hills of the ...
into "Mark Elliott", an American reporter. Its schmaltzy Hollywood theme song is far from the precise, delicately impressionistic style in which Han Suyin wrote her many books, using mostly ...
Han Suyin defiantly straddled two worlds decades before multiculturalism became fashionable. “We must carry ourselves with colossal assurance and say, ‘Look at us, the Eurasians!’ ...
In real life, Han Suyin fell in love with an Australian war correspondent who, in the novel, becomes an Englishman, Mark Elliott. In the second of two episodes, John explores Han’s other love ...
NEW YORK — Han Suyin, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film ‘‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’’ and for her outspoken championing of ...
We fled for our lives to the cries of “Bastard!” and “Whore!” The Belgian-Chinese novelist Han Suyin, born Elisabeth Chow in China’s Henan province in 1917, was painfully familiar with ...
Han Suyin, a prolific Eurasian author who generated controversy with her hagiographic view of China’s Cultural Revolution and who may be most remembered for her best-selling semi ...
It is customary not to speak ill of the dead, but then Han Suyin always considered herself an exceptional individual. Han, who died Friday in Lausanne, Switzerland, at age 95, achieved fame when ...
Han Suyin, a Chinese-Belgian British writer who emerged as among the most powerful voices that served as a bridge between China and the West in the 20th century and later became an ambassador for ...
Han Suyin defiantly straddled two worlds decades before multiculturalism became fashionable. “We must carry ourselves with colossal assurance and say, ‘Look at us, the Eurasians!’ ...
Dr. Comber, 95 years old, was born in China and wrote under the pen name Han Suyin, mostly on the country’s tumultuous changes in the 20th century. Her 1952 novel, “A Many-Splendored Thing ...