Suyin Han

The raw account of a life-altering affair in wartime London—“Han Suyin’s outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel.” (Alison Hennegan) As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara. Their affair unleashes a physical passion, a jealousy, and a sense of self-doubt that sweep all her previous experiences aside and will leave her changed forever. Set against the rubble of the bombed city, in a time of gray austerity and deprivation, Winter Love recalls a life at its most vivid. “Probably the best thing she has ever written” (Daily Telegraph), it is also Han Suyin’s most unexpected, tender, and stirring work.

Winter Love

A Many-splendoured Thing

Han Suyin

On the occasion of the ceremonial winding of China's royal clocks and automata, Colin, and Swiss clockmaker, falls in love with the bride-to-be of a Siamese king.

The Enchantress

L'albero ferito

Autobiographischer Roman über die tragische Liebesbeziehung zwischen der Halbchinesin Han Suyin und dem englischen Reporter Mark Elliott, die sich in den Wirren des Koreakrieges (1948/49) aus den Augen verlieren.

Roman

Alle Herrlichkeit auf Erden

Cast But One Shadow & Winter Love

la Chine

Une Fleur mortelle

China, Autobiography, History

The Crippled Tree

Autobiography of best-selling author, Han Suyin. Born in China before the Revolution, she was one of the first persons to gain admission to China after the Civil War. The book covers the years from 1949 and gives a unique perspective on the persons and events that characterize Red China.

My House Has Two Doors

New Zealand-China Society

Han Suyin on China

Alle Herrlichkeit auf Erden. Großdruck.

Zhou Enlai was one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century. Long overshadowed by the more visible - and charismatic - Mao Dzedong, he and his life and extraordinary accomplishments remain little recognized outside China, where he is still revered as the beloved father of the modern nation. In Eldest Son, Han Suyin brings this towering figure to life in a profoundly human and intimate portrait - the first full-scale biography of the late premier to be published in English. Between 1956 and 1974, Dr. Han conducted a series of eleven unprecedented interviews with Zhou, each of them lasting for several hours. Drawing upon these encounters, and on further meetings with his widow, his family and colleagues, as well as her unusual access to the Communist Party archives, Dr. Han presents a nuanced portrait of this deeply committed Chinese nationalist and Communist. Here is the full sweep of Zhou's remarkable life: his early schooling in Japan and Europe, his complex and loyal relationship to Mao, his historic meetings with other world leaders such as Khrushchev, Nehru, and Nixon which opened China to the global community. And Dr. Han gives us the private man as well as the public figure: his loving and formative marriage to Deng Yingchao, the murder of his adopted daughter at the hands of the Red Guards, and ultimately his painful battle with cancer. Like no other, Zhou's life is the history of modern China. Through the lens of his experience we see unfolding the dramatic, sometimes violent, decades of change: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the galvanizing Long March, the social convulsions of the Great Leap Forward, the violent excesses of the Cultural Revolution, andthe diplomatic rapprochement with the West in the 1970s. Dr. Han weaves these decisive events with the impressions and memories of hundreds of ordinary citizens from every sector of Chinese society to create a rich historical tapestry. Compellingly written, unique in its perspective, Eldest Son is masterful social history and an indispensable portrait of a legendary leader whose political legacy continues to influence the course of China today.

Zhou Enlai and the Making of Modern China, 1898-1976

Eldest Son

The Mountain is Young

... and the Rain My Drink

Second volume in an autobiography which evokes a panorama of the history of China from 1928-1938, an epoch as seen and experienced by herself and her family.

China: Autobiography, History

A Mortal Flower

China in the Year 2001

Love story of an Englishwoman and a Hindu who meet in a romantic valley in Nepal.

Suyin Han

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