Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (Chinese: 周光瑚; [1] 12 September 1917 or 1916 – 2 November 2012) [2] was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author [3] better known by her pen name Han Suyin (Chinese: 韓素音).

Nov 11, 2012 · Han, whose commercial success fueled a prolific career as a writer and unofficial spokeswoman for China during the Cold War years and beyond, died Nov. 2 of natural causes at her home in...

Mar 18, 2024 · An Open University academic has taken a new look at the popular romance A Many-Splendoured Thing that became a worldwide hit for its author Han Suyin.

A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller upon publication in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape. [1] The book was made into the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, which inspired a popular eponymous song.

Han Suyin (韩素音) or Elisabeth Comber (Sep.12, 1917—Nov. 2, 2012) is a Chinese-born British writer, known for her best seller "A Many Splendored Thing," which was adapted into a Hollywood production entitled "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" in 1955.

Mar 23, 2023 · Han Suyin’s writings described how in the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, revolutionary democracy touched heights unscaled and gave credibility to the mass movements. In the very thick of the skin she rebuked the Western media for wrongly cast in a negative picture of China.

Then, in late 1977, I met Han Suyin, an internationally renowned interpreter of modern China, and a writer would soon enjoy infamy as one of the most prominent two-faced people on the international scene. When we first met, however, ignominy still lay in her future.

Nov 6, 2012 · 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 China under...

Jun 1, 2023 · Han Suyin. An unheralded queer classic by a groundbreaking Eurasian writer, Winter Love is the stirring account of a life-altering affair in wartime London—“Han Suyin’s outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel.” (Alison Hennegan)

Jan 23, 2018 · 'Han Suyin, elegant postcolonial diva avant la lettre, icon of the new, nonaligned Asia, thorn in the side of the dying British Empire and the American Right.' 1. Your friend Suyin just died .