Destination Chungking

Autor*innen

• Han Suyin

Parameter

• Biografien
• Geschichte
• Historisches Thema
• Sachliteratur
• Wahre Geschichten

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Han Suyin means The Chinese Gamble. Written during the Sino~Japanese war by a twenty five year old Author, employed as a qualified midwife in the American Christian hospital in Chengtu, the capital town of the Sichuan province. It was written with aid of another person (an unnamed American missionary, employed as a woman doctor in the same Chengtu hospital). The brutal and bloody events of the Sino~Japanese war providing a realistic and impressive background to this personal story. The author's novelized memoir of living in wartime China. 'Han Suyin' is the pen name of Peking-born Eurasian Dr. Elisabeth Comber. She is an author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Paperback