The Crippled Tree is a history and biography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1885 to 1928, beginning with the life of her father, a Belgium-educated Chinese engineer of Hakka heritage, from a family of minor gentry in Sichuan.[1] It describes how he met and married her mother, a Flemish Belgian, his return to China, and her own birth and early life.[2]
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| Author | Han Suyin |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography, history |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (book) |
| Pages | 448 |
| ISBN | 978-0-586-03836-9 |
| OCLC | 6492043 |
| Followed by | A Mortal Flower |
The Crippled Tree is the first book of Han's six-volume epic cycle on the modern history of China through the lens of her family.[3]