Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon : the memoirs of Bao Luong / / Hue-Tam Ho Tai
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| Autore: |
Tai Hue-Tam Ho <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon : the memoirs of Bao Luong / / Hue-Tam Ho Tai
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 959.7/03092 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Women revolutionaries - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City |
| Women political prisoners - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Social conditions 20th century |
| Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Biography | |
| Altri autori: |
NguyenTrung Nguyet
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon |
| ISBN: | 1-282-76399-7 |
| 9786612763991 | |
| 0-520-94611-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815225003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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