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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.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations, map
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt.
Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt.
Women revolutionaries -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Biography.
Women revolutionaries.
Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject 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) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Nguyễn, Trung Nguyệt.
Other Form: Print version: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho. Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520262263 (DLC) 2010004555
ISBN 9780520946118 electronic book
0520946111 electronic book
0520262255
9780520262256
0520262263
9780520262263