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Tied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th century
Tied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th century
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Family Tree
- 1. A Burial in the Night
- 2. Shut Gate and High Walls
- 3. The Silk Merchant
- 4. French Veneer, Confucian Soul
- 5. Taxes, Floods, and Robbers
- 6. The Third Month in the Year of the Famine
- 7. The Head on the Roof
- 8. Into the Resistance Zone
- 9. Poison and Bribes
- 10. The Fall of a Border Garrison
- 11. Sifting Through the Rubble
- 12. The New Mecca
- 13. Just Cause
- 14. Short Peace, Long War
- 15. Flying Into the Unknown
- 16. The Spoils of Victory
- 17. The Hours of Gold and Jade
- Epilogue: Across the Four Seas
- Bibliography
- Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
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Genre: | Biographien |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 496 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780190614515 |
ISBN-10: | 019061451X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Elliott, Mai |
Auflage: | 2nd edition |
Hersteller: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Maße: | 228 x 154 x 40 mm |
Von/Mit: | Mai Elliott |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,721 kg |
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Family Tree
- 1. A Burial in the Night
- 2. Shut Gate and High Walls
- 3. The Silk Merchant
- 4. French Veneer, Confucian Soul
- 5. Taxes, Floods, and Robbers
- 6. The Third Month in the Year of the Famine
- 7. The Head on the Roof
- 8. Into the Resistance Zone
- 9. Poison and Bribes
- 10. The Fall of a Border Garrison
- 11. Sifting Through the Rubble
- 12. The New Mecca
- 13. Just Cause
- 14. Short Peace, Long War
- 15. Flying Into the Unknown
- 16. The Spoils of Victory
- 17. The Hours of Gold and Jade
- Epilogue: Across the Four Seas
- Bibliography
- Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
---|---|
Genre: | Biographien |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 496 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780190614515 |
ISBN-10: | 019061451X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Elliott, Mai |
Auflage: | 2nd edition |
Hersteller: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Maße: | 228 x 154 x 40 mm |
Von/Mit: | Mai Elliott |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,721 kg |
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