The Crippled Tree
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The Crippled Tree | |
Author | Han Suyin |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | autobiography, history |
Media type | Print (book) |
Pages | 448 |
ISBN | 978-0586038369 |
Followed by | A Mortal Flower |
The Crippled Tree is a history and biography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1885 to 1928, beginning with the life of her father, a Belgium-educated Chinese engineer of Hakka heritage, from a family of minor gentry in Sichuan. It describes how he met and married her mother, a Flemish Belgian, his return to China and her own birth and early life. (She was born in 1917).