The Crippled Tree

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| name = The Crippled Tree

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| image = The Crippled Tree (book).jpg

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| author = Han Suyin

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Autobiography, history

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| pub_date = 1965

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| media_type = Print (book)

| pages = 448

| isbn = 978-0-586-03836-9

| oclc = 6492043

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| followed_by = A Mortal Flower

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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.{{Cite journal |last=Lee |first=Vicky |date=December 2007 |title=Locating and Constructing the Self in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13488678.2007.10801212 |journal=Asian Englishes |language=en |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=46–63 |doi=10.1080/13488678.2007.10801212 |issn=1348-8678|url-access=subscription }} It describes how he met and married her mother, a Flemish Belgian, his return to China, and her own birth and early life.{{Cite journal |last=Wang |first=Yusi |last2=Cao |first2=Qing |last3=Nitschke |first3=Claudia |date=2023-07-03 |title=The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847 |journal=Life Writing |language=en |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=563–581 |doi=10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847 |issn=1448-4528|doi-access=free }}

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.{{Cite journal |last=Kowalska |first=Teresa |date=2000 |title=Tea, Ivory and Ebony: Tracing Colonial Threads in the Inseparable Life and Literature of Han Suyin |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23895258 |journal=Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |volume=40 |pages=21–32 |issn=0085-5774}}