The Crippled Tree
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| Author | Han Suyin |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography, history |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (book) |
| Pages | 448 |
| ISBN | 978-0-586-03836-9 |
| OCLC | 6492043 |
| 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.[1] It describes how he met and married her mother, a Flemish Belgian, his return to China, and her own birth and early life.[2]
The Crippled Tree is the first book of Han's six-volume epic cycle on the modern history of China through the lens of her family.[3]
References
- ^ Lee, Vicky (December 2007). "Locating and Constructing the Self in Han Suyin's The Crippled Tree". Asian Englishes. 10 (2): 46–63. doi:10.1080/13488678.2007.10801212. ISSN 1348-8678.
- ^ Wang, Yusi; Cao, Qing; Nitschke, Claudia (2023-07-03). "The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin's The Crippled Tree". Life Writing. 20 (3): 563–581. doi:10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847. ISSN 1448-4528.
- ^ Kowalska, Teresa (2000). "Tea, Ivory and Ebony: Tracing Colonial Threads in the Inseparable Life and Literature of Han Suyin". Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 40: 21–32. ISSN 0085-5774.