Han Suyin

Rosalie Matilda Kwanghu Chou (September 12, 1916/17–November 2, 2012), better \nknown by her pen name, Han Suyin, was born in Xinyang, in south-eastern Henan \nprovince, to a Chinese father and a Flemish mother. When she was five her family moved \nto Peking (modern-day Beijing), where she started formal schooling. Han studied in \na local Chinese school before transferring to a Catholic school where she was educated in \nboth French and English. At 14, she decided to pursue a career in medicine, and in 1933 \nshe was admitted to Yenching University. Han soon left to study medicine at the Brussels \nFree University on the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program but her dreams of becoming a doctor were interrupted by the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which forced \nher to drop out of college and return to China. She met her first husband, Tang Pao \nHuang, a Chinese nationalist military officer, on the return voyage and the two married \nin Wuhan in 1938. The couple moved to Chongqing, Sichuan province, the new capital of \nthe nationalist government, and Han subsequently trained as a midwife and worked in \na maternity hospital run by the US Christian mission in Chengdu. Destination Chungking \n(1942), her first published work, written with the assistance of an American missionary \ndoctor, Marian Manly, recounts her experiences during this period

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