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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784956303321

Autore

Tai Hue-Tam Ho <1948->

Titolo

Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon [[electronic resource] ] : the memoirs of Bao Luong / / Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-76399-7

9786612763991

0-520-94611-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Nguyẽ̂nTrung Nguyệt

Disciplina

959.7/03092

B

Soggetti

Women revolutionaries - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City

Women political prisoners - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Social conditions 20th century

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Principal Characters -- Introduction -- 1. The Girl from the South -- 2. From Faithful Moon to Precious Honesty -- 3. Apprentice Revolutionaries -- 4. Vignettes from the Revolution -- 5. Prelude to a Murder -- 6. The Crime on Barbier Street -- 7. The End of the Revolutionary Youth League -- 8. The Road to Hell -- 9. Down among Women -- 10. The Verdict -- 11. Life and Death -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the incredible story of Bao Luong, Vietnam's first female political prisoner. In 1927, when she was just 18, Bao Luong left her village home to join Ho Chi Minh's Revolutionary Youth League and fight both for national independence and for women's equality. A year later, she became embroiled in the Barbier Street murder, a crime in which unruly passion was mixed with revolutionary ardor. Weaving together Bao Luong's own memoir with excerpts from newspaper articles, family gossip, and official documents, this book by Bao Luong's niece takes us from rural life in the Mekong Delta to the bustle of colonial Saigon. It



provides a rare snapshot of Vietnam in the first decades of the twentieth century and a compelling account of one woman's struggle to make a place for herself in a world fraught with intense political intrigue.