Han Suyin speaking at UCLA 3/24/1965
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- From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
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An ardent Reformist even back then. Very perceptive. Spoke simply and revealingly. A very insightful speech. Han Suyin truly understands the true Face of Asia. Han Suyin personifies Asia. Thank God, China did not need a 100 years to reach an advance status
Cant get enough of Han, she fills me so with so much vast knoweldge! Thankyou!
i was a young university student in Philippines in the 1960's. I can relate to what she says. A truly great intellectual.
this is the only audio that we had on youtube, she was awesome, the introduction that she receive shown that she was digging wisdom stead of winning names on "important papers" a clear thinking and a really important voice that I am happy to have found, thanks a lot UCLACommStudies !!!!!!
A remarkable intellectual. Way ahead of her time. Read her seven-volume autobiography.
just read A many splendid thing, got some knowledge about hong kong, rather A sociology work than A love story
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A seven-volume auto-biography? She wasn't to proud of herself, was she? I wonder how many copies were sold.
I am on my house has two doors-- people might not understand that her autobiographys aren't just about her personal life, but about the many historical events she experienced, and the figures she met
Dr. Han showed her deep knowledge of economic development in Asian countries. As this lecture was delivered in 1965, I wish to point out developments after the 1960s.
Post 1960s, corruption among politicians and business leaders made a great impact on the economic progress of Asian countries.
Countries like Japan, Taiwan, China, Singapore and perhaps, S Korea made better progress because corruption was less rampant.
is is unfortunate that Dr. Han is no longer around to witness the massive progress that will be made in China under the leadership of President Xi Jin Ping, who is targeting corruption, promoting trade and infra-structure development both within China and inter-connecting with her neighbours to accelerate China's economic progress.
Read her book, And the Rain, My Drink.. Depicting the struggle of communist rebels against the colonial British in Malaya (now Malaysia) where she was working as a doctor.
In the last few pgs, its been excellent all the way through, pg 200- 209 a synopsis of the period via a conversation between two english civil servants, very much like a parting essay. Brilliant detailed book. I' m reading it after Burgess es malayan trilogy. Dodds and hembry material as well.
Pinpoint accurately what caused the handover of regime: KMT to Communists. Thanks Dr Han!
7:23 "because very simply, we in Asia did not discovered steam engine. Therefore, the industrial revolution did not come to us naturally. It was not a product of our own. It came to us with the west. And it came to us in a very unhappy way!" Wow, I totally admire her insights! She pointed out why Asians were suffered as the western powers came to this area not to help but to conquer!
Yes, you are right that they came to conquer, but Lee Kuan Yew attributed much of Singapore's ability to succeed to the institutions, legal principles and infrastructure that the British left behind. This includes educating the great man himself. There were negatives, but their were positives.
It's lucky Taiwan had land reform done by America, which was backbone of Taiwan's prosperity. "Build island, dream for mainland", without this, Taiwan still poor as the most southeast Asia region.
One thing people choose to forget, there will always be greed, corruption, power struggles until man is no more. Doesn't matter east, west, all become obsessed with money and power.
Hey there, little sister, this "you" / "us" business reveals your bias right from the start of your lecture. After all, your mother was Flemish (i.e., Western), and your father, Chinese (i.e., Eastern). Don't forget: for hundreds of years (even before contact with the West), YOUR emperors kept their Chinese fellowmen illiterate and tied to the soil. Let's not blame the industrious, creative republics of the West for all your Eastern troubles. I grimace with distaste when the West's achievements are chalked up to "luck" and the East's poverty to exploitation. Think again, and try to be as clear-eyed as you can when analyzing the causes of success and failure. Don't discount ingenuity, ambition, innovation, industriousness, education and all the benefits that the Western mind brings to bear on a problem to solve. I will continue to listen with a skeptical ear after minute 14.
All we ask for is not come stirring the Asia water, where having no business of yours.