The Crippled Tree
AuthorHan Suyin
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography, history
Publication date
1965
Media typePrint (book)
Pages448
ISBN978-0-586-03836-9
OCLC6492043
Followed byA 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
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