Birdless Summer

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name = Birdless Summer
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author = Han Suyin
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = autobiography, history
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media_type = Print (book)
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preceded_by = A Mortal Flower
followed_by = My House Has Two Doors

"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. She also tells how she came to write her first book, Destination Chungking. This was actually a joint work, written from her notes but revised by an established writer.