Birdless Summer

Birdless Summer is an autobiography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1938 to 1948, her work as a midwife in Chengtu and then going to London with her husband, who was a military attaché there. Also, her training as a doctor, the start of the last phase of the Chinese Civil War, in which her husband died fighting for the Kuomintang.

Birdless Summer

First edition (UK)
Author	Han Suyin
Language	English
Genre	autobiography, history
Published	1968 (Jonathan Cape) (UK) 1968 (Putnam) (US)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (book)
Pages	347
Preceded by	A Mortal Flower
Followed by	My House Has Two Doors

She gives a vivid picture of the final years of Kuomintang rule in mainland China, and of reactions to the Japanese invasion. She also tells how she came to write her first book, Destination Chungking.

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