| The Crippled Tree | |
| Author: | Han Suyin |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Autobiography, history |
| Pub Date: | 1965 |
| Media Type: | Print (book) |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-586-03836-9 |
| Oclc: | 6492043 |
| Followed By: | A Mortal Flower |
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 is the first book of Han's six-volume epic cycle on the modern history of China through the lens of her family.[3]