This type writer was used by Han Suyin in her later years and was kept in her house in Switzerland. Han was invited regularly to China since 1956, when she had several private meetings with then Premier Zhou Enlai and she was charmed by the rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. In her book China in the Year 2001 (1967), she hailed the "remaking of man" in China as a watershed for the world. She also laboured to produce a detailed history of Mao and the Cultural Revolution, resulting in The Morning Deluge (1972) and Wind in the Tower (1976) with mixed reviews.Han was associated with Singapore in a way through her husband Leon F. Comber, a British officer in the Malayan Special Branch, and she opened her own clinic in Johore and Singapore. In 1955, Han Suyin contributed efforts to the establishment of Nanyang University in Singapore. Specifically, she offered her services and served as physician to the institution, after having refused an offer to teach literature as proposed by the first president of the university, Lin Yutang. Her most popular novel was A Many-Splendoured Thing (1952) which was subsequently made into a film. Han Suyin passed away on 2 November 2012 at the age of 95 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
