| Description |
ix, 218 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Oxford in Asia paperbacks |
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Oxford in Asia paperbacks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Greg Lockhart -- I Pulled a Rickshaw /Tam Lang -- Household Servants / Vu Trong Phung --Days of Childhood / Nguyen Hong |
| Summary |
This book contains three classics of Vietnamese documentary social realism, which epitomize the urban transformation of the colonial era. The first work is Tam Lang's reportage, 'I Pulled a Rickshaw' (1932), which offers a unique account of the Hanoi rickshaw trade. Also set in Hanoi is Vu Trong Phung's reportage, 'Household Servants' (1936). It provides a vivid portrayal of those people who, like 'bees and ants', swarmed from the countryside to the city hoping to find sundry work as domestics, maids, and wet-nurses. Generally regarded as the first modern Vietnamese autobiography, Nguyen Hong's 'Days of Childhood' (1938) takes us into the northern provincial town of Nam Dinh. It tells a haunting story of downward social mobility and provides an unsurpassed account of the ancient family system under modern stress |
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Stark, searing, and socially aware, these works offer compelling inside views of urban life in an era that is fading from living memory but that has now become, after a long period of war and revolution, a reference point for the rapid urban development that Vietnam is experiencing again today |
| Analysis |
Vietnamese fiction |
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Vietnamese fiction |
| SUBJECT |
Hanoi (Vietnfm) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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Hanoi (Vietnam) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81100620 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Lockhart, Greg.
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Lockhart, Monique, 1941-
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Tam Lang, 1901-
Tôi kéo xe. English.
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Nguyên Hò̂ng.
Những ngày thơ á̂u. English.
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Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939.
Cơm thà̂y cơm cô. English.
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| LC no. |
95017326 |
| ISBN |
967653093X paperback |
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