LEADER 04151nam 2200637 450 001 9910794135603321 005 20220406163129.0 010 $a1-5017-4975-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501749759 035 $a(CKB)4100000011291462 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965000 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002397197 035 $a(DE-B1597)539673 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501749759 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930519 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011291462 100 $a20201123e20212020 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Saigon sisters$b[e-book] $eprivileged women in the resistance /$fPatricia D. Norland 210 1$aIthaca :$cNorthern Illinois University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aNIU Southeast Asian series 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2020. 311 $a1-5017-4973-0 311 $a1-5017-4974-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThanh: "We were young, our hearts beating for the cause" -- Trang: "We were living a contradiction" -- Minh: "Generation at a crossroads" -- Le An: "The resistance is for me the university of life" -- Sen: "Living in the jungle was a question of habit" -- Tuyen: "With music, the revolution had more of a chance to succeed" -- Lien An: "We were in a French colony but, deep down, we remained Vietnamese" -- Xuan: "We found the ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality were not for our people" -- Oanh: "The deciding reason I did not become a refugee was I went to study in the U.S." -- Thanh: "We had private lives but suppressed them. But we are, after all, human beings" -- Trang: "I was prepared for any sacrifice or risk" -- Minh: "I led two lives" -- Le An: "The theme of our work in putting on plays was revolution" -- Sen: "We thought of ourselves as working for the people, not a particular party" -- Tuyen: "Everyone thought, if a certain event happens, all ills would be cured. Everyone was wrong." -- Lien An: "Through the education we got in the north, we understood what we had to do" -- Xuan: "There was so much hatred. We could not stay indifferent; something had to be done" -- Oanh: "'French are very nice in France, and very colonialist in the colonies.' Americans were exactly the same" -- Reuniting. 330 8 $aThis text offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lyce?e and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Tracing the lives of nine women, the book reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes how they adapted to life in the jungle, whether facing bombing raids, malaria, deadly snakes, or other trials. 410 0$aNIU Southeast Asian series. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aIndochinese War, 1946-1954$vPersonal narratives, Vietnamese 606 $aIndochinese War, 1946-1954$xWomen$zVietnam 606 $aWomen revolutionaries$zVietnam$vBiography 606 $aUpper class women$zVietnam$vBiography 606 $aUpper class women$xPolitical activity$zVietnam$zHo Chi Minh City 607 $aHo Chi Minh City (Vietnam)$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aVietname War, French Indochina, Revolution, Vietnamese women, nationalism, communism, Lycee Marie Curie, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh. 615 0$aIndochinese War, 1946-1954 615 0$aIndochinese War, 1946-1954$xWomen 615 0$aWomen revolutionaries 615 0$aUpper class women 615 0$aUpper class women$xPolitical activity 676 $a959.704/1109252095977 700 $aNorland$b Patricia$01577833 702 $aGoscha$b Christopher$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794135603321 996 $aThe Saigon sisters$93856742 997 $aUNINA