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Titolo: OT han suyin

Non sono riuscita a trovare in rete una biografia di questa autrice,
nemmeno cenni biografici tipo l'anno di nascita. Qualcuno mi puň
aiutare? Grazie.
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Antonella
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/iliade_semplice

 aiutare? Grazie.
http://english.cla.umn.edu/courseweb/1591/Students/HanSuyin/HanSuyin.html
Biography
Han Suyin, Maiden name, Elizabeth Chou, was born on September 12, 1917, 
in Sinyang, China. Her father was a Chinese engineer. He went to Europe 
in 1993 to study engineering and came back to China in 1913. Her mother 
was a flemish. She came to China with her father, and gave birth to 
eight children. Han Suyin was brought up in China. She married P. H. 
Tang, a Chinese militarist in 1938 in China. They adopted a Chinese girl 
named Mei. Mei is the only child Han Suyin ever had. Pao died in 1947, 
and she married L. F. Comber (a publisher) on February 1. 1952 in Hongkong.
Being a Eurasians, she started to work as a typist at Peking Hospital in 
order to go to university, to study and to become a doctor when she was 
not quite fifteen years old. On September 1933, she was admitted to 
Yenching university. And she went to University of Brussels to study 
medicine in 1935. When Japanese was invading China, she gave up 
scholarship, studies and a boy friend, and returned to China in 1938. 
She entered School of Medicine at London University in 1944, and got 
M.B., B.S. in January 1948. Then she returned Hongkong, and was draw 
back to her roots in Asia since then. Being a writer is fortuitous to 
Han suyin, in her words, "it is an accident determined by my return to 
China in 1938, my marriage with Pao, and the anguished clash of our lives."
In 1942, with the assistance of an anonymous American woman missionary, 
Han Suyin published her first book Destination Chungking in the U.S. 
Destination Chungking is an autobiographical fiction that presents the 
idealized version of a brave young Chinese couple-Chiang Kaishek and his 
wife, struggling to serve their country. It had an intention to please 
and to interest the American public which would read it, to incite 
affection and admiration for China at war, and its legal government. But 
it never sold well, and quickly went out of print in the United States. 
"Destination Chungking did not convince me that I could write, but 
instead gave me an inferiority complex; I was convinced that I could not 
write". For the next ten years she did not write again, except for short 
sketches and stories, which were not published .
Han suyin's second book, A Many-Splendoured Thing, was published by the 
end of summer 1942 in England. The book is about her love affair with a 
British newspaper correspondent who was subsequently killed in Korea. It 
was a best seller. Set against war and social conflict, it was regarded 
as an objective report of conditions in Asia. The story was called "Love 
is a Many-Splendored Thing " by Twentieth Century-Fox and filmed in 
1955; the movie was chosen as one of the ten best picture of the year by 
the Film Daily poll. A daily CBS-TV series titled "Love is a Many 
-Splendored Thing" and based on the novel, premiered in September, 1967. 
Despite her success in writing, Han Suyin still wanted to be a doctor, 
"sitting down to begin my next book, the words came, the images; but 
also I felt lost, bereft, without the contact of people, the children, 
the sick." So she remained a doctor through fifteen years of active 
practice, till 1964 and finally surrender to the evidence that she is a 
writer in 1967. Her works after A Many-Splendoured Thing are And the 
Rain My Drink, The Mountain is Young, Two Loves, The Four Faces, The 
Crippled Tree, …. All together she had wrote 16 books. Many are frankly 
autobiographical. Her novels reflect her feeling for the country of her 
birth.
Literary critics have been angered by her outspoken views and disgust 
for Western values. Martin Levin wrote: "… In The Four Faces the pill 
has a bitter center of anti-Westernism, and the coating is a rigamarole 
of dope-peddling, double-dealing and intrigue in Camboida, where East is 
best and west is worst…Determined one-sidedness makes her novel tough 
going even for a reader who is willing to believe, as Dr. Han does, that 
there is pie in the Asian sky for the uncommitted nations," Edward Weeks 
noted: "I have come to think of Han Suyin as a novelist who draws more 
transparently upon her emotions than on her intellect. In A 
Many-Splendored Thing,her best book, she was outgiving; the love story 
she proclaimed and celebrated was evocative, full-hearted and poignant. 
Two Lovers is a smaller performance-two novellas, each of which seems to 
have been composed in a resentful mood."
If her books have been deplored by some for their partisanship, they 
have been praised by others for the same reason. David Dodge wrote: 
"Because she is so honestly partisan, The Crippled Tree is of greater 
interest and value than it might have been if written more objectively. 
It gives the Chinese side of a story that we in America know only from 
our own side…The Crippled Tree is written by a woman who does not like 
and admire us as we want to be liked and admired. But it explains in its 
way why we are not liked and admired, and any explanation of China today 
is better than none. Futhermore, Han Suyin writes with elegance and 
style. Even when she is ripping into Americans"
Han Suyin is thought to be extremely sympathetic with the government of 
Mao Tse Tung and the problems of the Chinese people. She has said: "I 
write as an Asian, with all the pent-up emotions of my people. What I 
say will annoy many people who prefer the more conventional myths 
brought back by writers on the Orient. All I can say is that I try to 
tell the truth. Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures."
Selected Bibliography
Works by the Author
1. And The Rain My Drink (1956)
2. Asia Today: Two Outlook (1969)
3. Birdless Summer; China, autobiography, history (1968)
4. China In The Year 2001 (1967)
5. Chou En-lai, yu ta ti shin chi /Han Su-Yin Chu; Wang Nung-Sheng…
teng I; Ch`eng Chen-ch`iu Chiao (1992)
6. The Crippled Tree; China: biography, history, autobiography (1965)
7. Destination Chungking (1942)
8. The Enchantress /By Han Suyin (1985)
9. Erh ling ling I nien ti Chung-Duo (1970)
10. A Many-Splendoured Thing (1952)
11. The Morning Deluge; Mao Tsetong and the Chinese Revolution
1893-1954 (1972)
12. A Mortal Flower; China: autobiography, history (1966)
13. The Mountain Is Young (1958)
14. My House Has Two Doors: China, autobiography, history/ Han Suyin
(1980)
15. Wind In The Tower: Mao Tsetong and Chinese Revolution, 1949-1965/
by Han Suyin (1976)
16. Wind In My Sleeve: China, autobiography, history/ Han Suyin (1992)
Works About the Author
1. Han Suyin. Birdless Summer; China, autobiography, history. London:
Cape, 1968.
2. Han Suyin. A mortal Flower; China: autobiography, history. New York:
Putnam, c1965.
3. Han Suyin. My House Has Two Doors: China, autobiography, history/
Han Suyin. New York: Putnam, 1980.
4. Martin Seymour-Smith, eds. Novels and Novelists. New York: ST. Martin's
Press, 1980.
5. Contemporary Authors. Vol: 17-20. Detroit, Gale Research CO., 1976.

 aiutare? Grazie.
Adesso che Antonio ti ha aiutato, ci puoi spiegare come hai fatto a non
trovare niente? Inserendo in Google "han suyin biografia" e scegliendo le
pagine in italiano, il primo risutato che esce e' quello che cerchi. Che
diavolo di motore di ricerca hai usato?
Zeppo
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=han+suyin+biografia&meta=lr%3Dlang_it

Biography
Oddio, ti ringrazio della gentilezza, forse avrei dovuto specificare
che la cercavo in italiano :-))
Ma grazie lo stesso! :-))
--
Antonella
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/iliade_semplice

 che la cercavo in italiano :-))
Se il problema e' la lingua, puoi utilizzare il traduttore che ti offre 
google. La traduzione non e' perfetta, sia chiaro, ma in genere ti da' 
la possibilita' di capire in misura sufficiente per consentirti di 
rimaneggiare il tutto in forma accettabile (visto poi che e' gratis...).
Cerca la dicitura "strumenti per le lingue" che ti trovi in piccolino 
sulla destra quando fai 
www.google.it
. Accedi ad una sezione che, oltre 
a consentirti la traduzione di frasi, parole.. ti traduce intere pagine 
web se inserisci il relativo url.
Se non ricordo male, anche quando fai la ricerca su web di notizie, e ti 
ritrovi l'elenco di link, trovi anche una dicitura del tipo "traduci 
pagina" (questo se non ricordo male): in pratica google ti traduce la 
pagina cui rimanda il link. Dipende in genere da com'e' strutturata la 
pagina web, a dire la verita' (non sempre traduce proprio tutto, ma nel 
caso esiste sempre il classico "copia/incolla"), ma anche questo puo' 
aiutare.
Ciao.

 diavolo di motore di ricerca hai usato?
l'ha cercata nell'archivio de Il Giornale e non l'ha trovata.


http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=han+suyin+biografia&meta=lr%3Dlang_it
Guarda, io ho messo proprio "biografia+han+suyin" in italiano e sono
uscite solo pagine con riferimenti ai suoi libri. Mi sarò rimbambita,
che ti devo dire :-)
--
Antonella
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/iliade_semplice

 google.
Sì, dove si esercitano tutte le guide turistiche.
Il mese scorso, appena uscito dal Senato, mi sono imbattuto in uno di
costoro che arringava i turisti dicendo loro che stavano per recarsi in Big
Ship square.
..

 che ti devo dire :-)
Ma no, dai. Comunque adesso con la stessa ricerca esci tu che la cerchi :)
Basta poco a diventare famosi, con Google.
Harpo