Han Suyin; Han Su-yin

Undated portrait of Chinese writer Han Suyin. She was born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow in Xinyang of Belgian and Chinese parents on Sept. 12, 1917. After a tour of Europe, she returned to China in 1938 and during the war with Japan wrote her first book "Destination Chungking". After World War II, and after her husband, a Nationalist General, had been killed fighting Communists, she finished medical studies at London University and went back to China. She currently resides in Lausanne, Switzerland. (AP Photo)


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