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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.
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- Titel
- Destination Chungking
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Han Suyin
- Uitgever
- Panther
- Formaat
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0586038604
- ISBN13
- 9780586038604
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- 3,95 van 5
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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.