''My House Has Two Doors'' (1980) is one of a multi-book autobiography by

Han Suyin Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (; 12 September 1917 or 1916 – 2 November 2012) was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin (). She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East an ...

. It tells of her life from 1948 to 1980, including the real-life love-affair that was the basis for her 1952 novel ''

A Many-Splendoured Thing ''A Many-Splendoured Thing'' is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller upon publication in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape. The book was made into the 1955 film '' Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing'', which inspired a popular eponymous song. I ...

''. She went from

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, where she witnessed the Communist insurgency she described in her 1956 novel '' And the Rain My Drink''. She also tells of her return to China and her impression of the early years of Communist rule. The second half of the book is sometimes published as a separate work entitled ''Phoenix Harvest''.

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1980 books Literary autobiographies Books by Han Suyin Jonathan Cape books {{lit-bio-book-stub