The Saigon sisters : privileged women in the resistance / Patricia D. Norland.
By: Norland, Patricia [author.].
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TextSeries: NIU series in Southeast Asian studies.Publisher: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020Description: xxiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: | Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501749735.Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Personal narratives, Vietnamese | Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Women -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City | Women revolutionaries -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Biography | Upper class women -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Biography | Upper class women -- Political activity -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City | Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Saigon sistersDDC classification: 959.704 NOR | Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thanh: "We were young, our hearts beating for the cause" -- Trang: "We were living a contradiction" -- Minh: "Generation at a crossroads" -- Le An: "The resistance is for me the university of life" -- Sen: "Living in the jungle was a question of habit" -- Tuyen: "With music, the revolution had more of a chance to succeed" -- Lien An: "We were in a French colony but, deep down, we remained Vietnamese" -- Xuan: "We found the ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality were not for our people" -- Oanh: "The deciding reason I did not become a refugee was I went to study in the U.S." -- Thanh: "We had private lives but suppressed them. But we are, after all, human beings" -- Trang: "I was prepared for any sacrifice or risk" -- Minh: "I led two lives" -- Le An: "The theme of our work in putting on plays was revolution" -- Sen: "We thought of ourselves as working for the people, not a particular party" -- Tuyen: "Everyone thought, if a certain event happens, all ills would be cured. Everyone was wrong." -- Lien An: "Through the education we got in the north, we understood what we had to do" -- Xuan: "There was so much hatred. We could not stay indifferent; something had to be done" -- Oanh: "'French are very nice in France, and very colonialist in the colonies.' Americans were exactly the same" -- Reuniting.
"Offers the perspective of a group of privileged women, daughters of the elite in colonial Saigon, who rebel and fight for independence from France"-- Provided by publisher.
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