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Birdless Summer: China: Autobiography, History
by Han Suyin
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Birdless Summer is a biography 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 attache 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. She gives a vivid picture of the final years of Kuomintang rule in mainland China, and of reactions to the Japanese invasion.
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- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1636098098ADA
- Title
- Birdless Summer: China: Autobiography, History
- Author
- Han Suyin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Date Published
- 1968
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