A ManySplendored Thing Author:Han Suyin This is a beautiful love story -- all the more impressive because it is true. Han Suyin, with her nine-year-old daughter Mei, comes to Hone Kong in 1949; her husband had been killed fighting the Communists. With her medical degree earned in England, the young widow was welcomed as a resident doctor in an overcrowded hospital in Hong Kong. In thi... more »s congested city tuberculosis was rampaging, and she and the other doctors had more patients than they could care for. At the end of one long exhausting day, in the relaxation of a friendlyy dinner party, Han Suyin meets a charming English correspondent, Mark Elliott, and she begins to come alive. Their attraction deepens into love, but the romance is frowned apon by the Colony, and is doomed for many reasons: Han Suyin is a Eurasian, and Mark has a wife and family at home and his assignments keep him on the move.« less