From a bookseller's description: Han defines, analyzes, and explains the process of change in modern China.\nFrom a vitriolic review by John King Fairbank characterizing the book in short at the end of the long review by quoting the last sentence: 
"China is undergoing a revulsive crisis (I) because this Civilization-State (II) in order to overcome its internal crisis and its humiliation (III) wants to invent (IV) and thus recover its cohesion (V) and its inspiration (VI) through its educators (VII) who mobilize it against cultural oppression (VIII)." Mao being the "educator", Fairbank added.

China in the Year 2001 (Pelican S.)

History

Han, Suyin

Asia

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The morning deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese revolution, 1893-1953;

CAPE.

Dustjacket has minor edgewear and the spine is sun-faded. Book has some shelf-wear.

Wind in the tower: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese revolution, 1949-1975

Little,Brown

In this fourth volume of her autobiography and history of China, covering the years from 1949 to 1979, Han Suyin writes of events which will be in the memories of many readers. As a Eurasian in South East Asia after the Second World War she has special insight into the struggles and difficulties experienced by both East and West in that sensitive period. Returning from England to live in Hong-kong with her adopted daughter Yungmei, she is determined to visit communist China - to see how her father and family have fared since the Revolution - though it is not until 1956 that she is allowed entry. Meanwhile, as a doctor in Hongkong, she meets and falls in love with Ian Morrison, and their passionate affair inspires the writing of A Many-Splendoured Thing - setting her on her course as one of the most acclaimed writers of her day. From her first visit to China in 1956 to the last recorded in this volume in 1978, Han Suyin views China, feeling herself at once a foreign observer and native Chinese. She measures the vast improvements in living conditions against the oppressive uniformity of thought: she experiences the leavening atmosphere of the Hundred Flowers period and the sharp reaction from it. She sees the effect of famine on the Chinese people and the relief and joy brought by the good harvest of 1962, and she describes the devastation wrought on Chinese society by the Cultural Revolution of 1966-7. After the death of Ian Morrison Han Suyin married Leonard Comber and moved to Malaya, where as a doctor she met Malaysians and Chinese from all strata of society; while as a writer she was introduced to politicians - among them Nehru, Malcolm MacDonald and Sukarno. It is Han Suyin's keen observation of events, her candid responses to what she sees and eloquent expression of what she feels, which make this book such a fascinating record of those formative years, both in her own life and in the birth of a new South East Asia.

My House Has Two Doors

J. Cape

A Share of Loving

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

JONATHAN CAPE.

And the Rain My Drink

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Little Brown/Atlantic Monthly

Her fourth book about a love story set in Napal.

The Mountain Is Young

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

A Mortal Flower: China, Autobiography, History

Travel

The Crippled Tree: China: Biography, History, Autobiography

The events of Chinese history between 1938 and 1948 are vividly reconstructed in this third volume of Han Suyin's autobiography. The story of her unhappy marriage to a fanatical army officer is told against the background of the appalling confusion and corruption of China at that time: the Japanese invasion, the misery and squalor of the retreating Chinese, the activities of Chiang Kaishek and his 'Blueshirts', the violent prelude to revolution. Ill-treated and misunderstood, Han Suyin goes to work as a midwife in Chengtu, and it is there her career as a writer begins. Later, unable to have a child herself, she adopts a daughter. When her husband becomes military attache in London, Han Suyin follows him there and she describes in fascinating detail her life as a diplomat's wife in wartime. In 1944, she enrolls as a medical student and, after qualifying, she spends a year as house surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. As the Chinese civil war turns into revolution, Han Suyin, now a widow, returns to Hong-Kong. Han Suyin's narrative is not merely the affecting and extraordinary life story of a woman of immense courage. In the way that if brings to life more powerfully than ever before the spirit and politics of China, it is a significant contribution to the history of our time.

Birdless summer;: China, autobiography, history

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