THE CRIPPLED TREE by Han Suyin. 461 pages. Putnam. $5.95.
Han Suyin made a literary reputation of sorts by telling, in A Many-Splendored Thing, all the revealing intimate details of her carryings-on in Hong Kong with a married British foreign correspondent who got killed in the Korean War. Several autobiographical exposés later, Eurasian Suyin, now 48, tells again of herself, this time as a child, and of the declining fortunes of her father's Mandarin family at a time of chaos, civil war and foreign depredation in China. "The characters in this book," says the...
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