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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948-

Contributor:

Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt.

Women revolutionaries--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City--Biography.

Women revolutionaries.

Women political prisoners--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City--Biography.

Women political prisoners.

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

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612763991

9781282763999

1282763997

9780520946118

0520946111

OCLC:

646788654