Vietnamese Women in Society and Revolution. 1. The French Colonial Period

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First edition. Volume 1 only. Two introductions by Nguyen Hoi Chan; translation, remaining introductions, and essays by Ngo Vinh Long. Edited by Paul Grace, Susan Koff, Nancy Nichols, Susan Phillips, Mike Prokosch, and Truong Dinh Hung. Octavo. 207pp. Pictorial wrappers with a toned spine, a bit of soil, and a small corner crease on the lower wrap, very good. (N.B. pp.177-184 are printed upside-down.) Prints a historical background followed by pieces by 10 writers, each with an introduction. The first of three proposed volumes, we find no evidence that a second volume was published. Ngo Vinh Long has been described as "the most prominent Vietnamese in the United States to campaign against the war" (*The New York Times*). While a first-year student at Harvard, he traveled on an anti-war lecture circuit and held teach-ins with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky; his conviction that the U.S. could not achieve victory in Vietnam (other than, in his words, "destroying the country" which he told Kissinger directly while being tutored by him at Harvard) made him a highly polarizing figure and the subject of threats and at least one attempt on his life. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 592740

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