Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon - The Memoirs of Bao Luong

Zusatztext "Provocative and productive. . . . [Does] a great service to the study of modern Vietnam." Informationen zum Autor Hue-Tam Ho Tai is Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University. She is the editor of The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (UC Press) and the author of Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution and Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam. Klappentext "This book makes its entry into a field-modern Vietnamese history-that is quite starved of detailed social history. It will deepen our understanding of the period! fill in important knowledge gaps! and inspire new inquiries."-Christoph Giebel! author of Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory Zusammenfassung Presents the story of Bao Luong, Vietnam's first female political prisoner. Weaving together Bao Luong's own memoir with excerpts from newspaper articles, family gossip, and official documents, this book takes us from rural life in the Mekong Delta to the bustle of colonial Saigon.

Product details

• Authors: Hue-Tam Ho Tai
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2010
• EAN: 9780520262256
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26225-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Vietnam, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups & movements, Asian History, Biography: historical, political and military, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions