The Crippled Tree

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]

The Crippled Tree

Author	Han Suyin
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]