{"id":26347,"date":"2012-11-06T22:43:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26347"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:44:01","slug":"han-suyins-many-splendored-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26347","title":{"rendered":"Han Suyin&#8217;s Many-Splendored World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/01\/25\/style\/han-suyin-s-many-splendored-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Han Suyin&#8217;s Many-Splendored World<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n1985-01-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia Dullea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being remembered as the author of\u00a0 &#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Many-Splendoured_Thing\" target=\"_blank\">A Many-Splendored Thing<\/a>,&#8221; the semiautobiographical love story of a Eurasian physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong, which inspired a sentimental movie and an even more sentimental song, is a bore, says <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Han_Suyin\" target=\"_blank\">Han Suyin<\/a>, 33 years and 16 books after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>In this country, &#8220;they still identify me with Jennifer Jones and that song,&#8221; the 68-year-old Dr. Han said with a weary smile, &#8221;and I do get bored because, well, I&#8217;ve done other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Han, who lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lausanne\" target=\"_blank\">Lausanne, Switzerland<\/a>, was sitting in her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pied-%C3%A0-terre\" target=\"_blank\">pied-\u00e0-terre<\/a> on Beekman Place, drinking beer from a china mug and reflecting on change &#8211; both in China and in her own mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a person who changes, who adapts,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s because of my avidity for learning. If tomorrow you prove to me something new, I&#8217;ll be quite willing to overturn my ideas because ideas are made to be overturned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exploring Two Cultural Identities<\/p>\n<p>Born in Peking of a Chinese father and Belgian mother, Dr. Han has devoted her literary career to exploring her two cultural identities and to explaining East to West. &#8220;Instead of remaining torn and frayed, as so many other people, I come together and now both my worlds have come together,&#8221; she said, pressing one palm on the other. &#8220;To be quite honest, I was not very happy in a world where China and the West were at odds&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/01\/25\/style\/han-suyin-s-many-splendored-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Han Suyin&#8217;s Many-Splendored World The New York Times 1985-01-25 Georgia Dullea Being remembered as the author of\u00a0 &#8221;A Many-Splendored Thing,&#8221; the semiautobiographical love story of a Eurasian physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong, which inspired a sentimental movie and an even more sentimental song, is a bore, says Han Suyin, 33 years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,8,25],"tags":[12656,12657,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-26347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-georgia-dullea","tag-han-suyin","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}