{"id":26350,"date":"2012-11-06T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26350"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:55:09","slug":"han-suyin-dies-wrote-sweeping-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26350","title":{"rendered":"Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2012-11-05<\/p>\n

Margalit Fox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Han Suyin<\/a>, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film \u201cLove Is a Many-Splendored Thing<\/a>\u201d and for her outspoken championing of China under Mao Zedong<\/a>, died on Friday at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As with many aspects of Dr. Han\u2019s life, the precise year of her birth is uncertain, but she was believed to have been 96. Her granddaughter, Karen Shepard, confirmed the death.<\/p>\n

The daughter of a Chinese father and a Belgian mother, Dr. Han was born and reared in China but wrote primarily in English and French. In more than two dozen books, including novels, a multivolume memoir and laudatory biographies of Mao and Zhou Enlai, she had the singular task, during the 1950s and afterward, of simultaneously explaining China to the West and the West to China…<\/p>\n

…Dr. Han was born on Sept. 12, most likely in 1916, her granddaughter said \u2014 not in 1917, as has been reported over the years. The city of her birth is uncertain: it may have been Xinyang<\/a>, in the Henan Province<\/a>. Her parents eventually settled in Beijing<\/a>, where she grew up.<\/p>\n

At birth, Dr. Han was given the Chinese name Kuang-Hu Chou; she was also known early on by a Western name believed to have been Rosalie Matilda Chou, though she preferred to call herself Elizabeth. (At the start of her writing career she took the pen name Han Suyin, which she liked to translate as \u201ca common little voice.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Growing up as a mixed-race child, Dr. Han later said, she felt she had a foot in each of two words but a secure footing in neither. Her mother, she told The New York Times<\/em><\/a> in 1985, caustically referred to her as \u201cthe yellowish object.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction The New York Times 2012-11-05 Margalit Fox Han Suyin, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film \u201cLove Is a Many-Splendored Thing\u201d and for her outspoken championing of China under Mao Zedong, died on Friday at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland. As […]<\/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":[221,12657,12464,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-26350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-china","tag-han-suyin","tag-margalit-fox","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350","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=26350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}