Word: suyin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mountain Is Young, Han Suyin...
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Thus East (Unni Menon, a mystical engineer) meets West (Anne Ford, the new English teacher at a Khatmandu girls' school) in Author Han (A Many-Splendored Thing) Suyin's new novel. And why was it that critics denounced Kipling...
...Carpet Welcome. Despite this tendency to load her political dice. Han Suyin can convey the heat, the squalor, and flux of Asiatic life with expert touches...
...British husband, she says, is not the nice policeman of her story, but it may or may not be of interest that he is no longer a policeman. Instead of running down Communists, he is writing a book on Chinese secret societies. Han Suyin herself is just back from an extended visit to Peking, whose comrade-intellectuals gave her a red-carpet welcome to show that they liked her and her work, even if she did not (really) like them...