The Sacred Willow Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

by Elliott, Mai

• ISBN13: 9780195137873
• ISBN10: 0195137876
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Published on the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, this is an unprecedented and moving consideration of the country's history--as seen through the eyes of four generations of one Vietnamese family. 32 halftones.

Author Biography

Duong Van Mai Elliott was born and raised in Vietnam and attended Georgetown University on a scholarship. She lived in Vietnam again from 1963 to 1968 and worked for the Rand Corporation interviewing Viet Cong prisoners of war. She returned to the U.S. in 1968 and now lives in California.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Maps

Family Tree

A Burial in the Night

Shut Gate and High Walls

The Silk Merchant

French Veneer, Confucian Soul

Taxes, Floods, and Robbers

The Third Month in the Year of the Famine

The Head on the Roof

Into the Resistance Zone

Poison and Bribes

The Fall of a Border Garrison

Sifting Through the Rubble

The New Mecca

Just Cause

Short Peace, Long War

Flying Into the Unknown

The Spoils of Victory

The Hours of Gold and Jade

Epilogue: Across the Four Seas

Bibliography

Index

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