ABSTRACT
Conclusion: “Han Suyin, a Daughter of China and Global-Friendly Person.” The book’s concluding chapter demonstrates how a rejected Eurasian female excelled and rose to reclaim her rightful place in the 20th-century global scene. Using the framework of ethical literary criticism (ELC), the chapter summarises Han Suyin’s renegotiation of her ethical identity, justification of her ethical choice, and use of first-person plural narrative in her six-volume autobiographical series. Her life story embodies a perpetual ethical dilemma, literally living out the etymology of a “Hakka,” never a host, always a “guest.” Despite opposing opinions, the potential of ELC as a sensible approach to critiquing literature is reemphasised in the chapter. The rationale of Han Suyin’s choosing to be “Chinese” and her pursuit of the “salvation” of China permeates her voluminous autobiographical series. Her account, analysed systematically using ELC, provides much food for thought on differential issues faced by minority mixed-race individuals during the 20th century. Her puzzling yet logical life, nonetheless, is an oxymoron of rationality amidst irrationality, a legend in the worst and the best of the years gone by.
