Birdless Summer; China: Autobiography, History
by Suyin, Han
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0224614711
- ISBN 13
- 9780224614719
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154783
- Title
- Birdless Summer; China: Autobiography, History
- Author
- Suyin, Han
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0224614711
- ISBN 13
- 9780224614719
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Biography, Autobiography, Politics--China
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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