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Author Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948-

Title Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon : the memoirs of Bao Luong / Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents The girl from the South -- From faithful moon to precious honesty -- Apprentice revolutionaries -- Vignettes from the Revolution -- Prelude to a murder -- The crime on Barbier Street -- The end of the Revolutionary Youth League -- The road to hell -- Down among women -- The verdict -- Life and death
Summary "This is the ... 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." -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt
SUBJECT Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt fast
Subject Women revolutionaries -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Biography
Women political prisoners -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Social conditions
Women political prisoners
Women revolutionaries
SUBJECT Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- Biography
Subject Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt
ISBN 9780520946118
0520946111
1282763997
9781282763999
9786612763991
661276399X