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Suyin HAN [1917-2012]

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Submitted by David on Thu, 2012-11-15 16:33
Names
Given: 
Suyin
Family: 
Han
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1917-09-12
Birthplace (town, state): 
Xinyang, Henan
Birthplace (country): 
China
Death
Date: 
2012-11-02

The Guardian's obituary: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/04/han-suyin

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Submitted by HO Lim-peng on Sun, 2012-11-18 23:41.

I had little time for Han's work, although it was often attractively written, as it frequently consisted of unsubtle cheer leading for Chinese communists, and was written in comfort, a long way from their activities. The"British police official" to whom she was at one time married, and who receives scant attention in her obituaries, was Malaya Special Branch counter-insurgency genius Leon Comber, to whom the modern state of Malaysia owes a great deal. It is interesting to speculate on how the marriage came about. Comber, who later had a publishing career in Hong Kong, is still with us, I believe in Melbourne. Han sometimes wrote under the name of Elizabeth Comber.