Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon

The Memoirs of Bao Luong

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Asia, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
Cover of the book Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, University of California Press
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Author: Hue-Tam Ho Tai ISBN: 9780520946118
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: May 14, 2010
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Hue-Tam Ho Tai
ISBN: 9780520946118
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: May 14, 2010
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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