The Crippled Tree

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The Crippled Tree
Author Han Suyin
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).