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A Mortal Flower (China : Autobiography, History, Book 2)
by
Han Suyin
With black and white photographs..Softback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in very good all-round condition, ,362pages.
Paperback
,
368 pages
Published
July 1st 1972
by Triad Books
(first published September 1966)
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This is the second volume of Han Suyin's fascinating autobiography/history, which in this case brings alive again the tumultuous China of 1928 to 1938 -- and the grim slide toward fascism in western Europe in the latter years of that period.
Young Rosalie Chou, as she was then known, lived through harrowing challenges and severe self-doubts during these years -- her fraught relationship with her mother worsening even further, her social isolation as a Eurasian in an ever more racialistic world de ...more
Young Rosalie Chou, as she was then known, lived through harrowing challenges and severe self-doubts during these years -- her fraught relationship with her mother worsening even further, her social isolation as a Eurasian in an ever more racialistic world de ...more
to be read slowly, enjoyed like a rich glass of wine. the depth and complexity of the authors Eurasian history and of China as she knew her. glad I read this second part of the trilogy.
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Han Suyin (Pinyin: Hán Sùyīn) is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú). She is a Chinese-born Eurasian
author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician. She currently resides in Lausanne and has written in English and French.
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author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician. She currently resides in Lausanne and has written in English and French.
