[7] In 1944, she went with her daughter to London, where her husband Pao had been posted two years earlier as military attaché,[8] to continue her studies in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital.

There she met and fell in love with Ian Morrison, a married Australian war correspondent based in Singapore, who was killed in Korea in 1950.

Chinese writer Lin Yutang, the 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".

Much later, the movie itself was made into a daytime soap opera, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, which ran from 1967 to 1973 on American TV.

In 1956, she published the novel And the Rain My Drink, whose description of the guerrilla war of Chinese rubber workers against the government was perceived to be very anti-British, and Comber is said to have resigned as acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Special Branch mainly because of this.

[1] In 1960, Han married Vincent Ratnaswamy, an Indian colonel, and lived for a time in Bangalore, India.

She was one of the first foreign nationals to visit Red China, including through the years of the Cultural Revolution.

In 1974, she was the featured speaker at the founding national convention of the US-China Peoples Friendship Association in Los Angeles.

[16] 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.