Hugo Restall, A Cheerleader for Mao's Cultural Revolution. Han Suyin hid the truth about China's regime. She was not the last. Wall Street Journal, Nov 7, 2012.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 02792626733034.html
("Han Suyin—the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, who was born to a Chinese father and Belgian mother")
Note:
(1) HAN Suyin 韩 素音
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Suyin
(1917-2012; born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu CHOW 周 光瑚 in 河南省信阳市; graduated MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery) with Honours in 1948 at London; In 1952, she married Leon F Comber, the second husband; "After 1956, Han Suyin visited China almost annually. She was one of the first foreign nationals to visit post-1949 revolution China, including through the years of the Cultural Revolution"; died in Lausanne, Switzerland)
(b) Simone de Beauvoir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir
(1908-1986; French)
(c) Her photo can be found in
Jason Chow, Han Suyin, Author of ‘A Many-Splendored Thing,’ Dies at 95. Scene Asia, Nov 5, 2012.
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/ ... d-thing-dies-at-95/
There is no need to read the text of (c).
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