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Han Suyin was born in heritage, while her mother was a Flemish Belgian . In 1938 Han Suyin married Pao H. Tang (Tang Paohuang), a Chinese Nationalist Military Officer , who was to become a general. They Adopted one Daughter (Yungmei). She began work as a , then went again to London in 1944 to study medicine, graduated MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery) in 1948 and went to Hong Kong to practice medicine in 1949 at the Queen Mary Hospital. Her husband, Tang, meanwhile, had died in action during the Chinese Civil War in 1947 . In 1952 , she married Leon F. Comber, a British officer in the Malayan Special Branch, and went with him to Johore , Malaya (present-day Malaysia ), where she worked in the Johore Bahru General Hospital and opened a clinic in Johore Bharu and Upper Pickering Street, Singapore. (Comber resigned from the British Colonial Police Service as an acting Assistant Commmissioner of Police Branch mainly because of the perceived anti-British approach of her novel ''And the Rain My Drink''. In 2006 , Dr. Leon Comber was a Research Fellow at Monash Asia Institute, Monash University , Melbourne .) In 1955 , she contributed efforts to the establishment of Nanyang University in Singapore . Specifically, she offered her services and served as physician to the institution, after having refused an offer to teach literature. Chinese writer Lin Yutang , first president of the university, had recruited her for the latter field, but she declined, indicating her desire "to make a new Asian literature, not teach Dickens", according to the Warring States Project at the University Of Massachusetts, Amherst [http://www.umass.edu/wsp/sinology/persons/lin.html]. Also in 1955, her best-known work, ''A Many-Splendoured Thing'', was made into a Hollywood Film . After Comber and Han Suyin's divorce, she later married Vincent Ratnaswamy , an Indian Colonel (died January 2003 in Bangalore , India ), and lived for a time in Bangalore , India . After the two separated, Han Suyin relocated to Switzerland . WORKS Cultural and political conflicts between East and West in modern history play a central role in Han Suyin's work. She also explores the struggle for liberation in Southeast Asia and the internal and foreign policies of modern China since the end of the imperial regime. Many of her writings feature the Colonial backdrop in East Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries. In regard to her novels, however, someone who was close to her comments that without detracting from the brilliance of her writing, she has a propensity to mix fact with fiction that is often detrimental to the persons who are rightly or wrongly "identified" in what she writes. Novels
Autobiographical works
Historical studies
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