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Hearts of sorrow : Vietnamese-American lives

Author: James M Freeman
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1989.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James M Freeman
ISBN: 0804715858 9780804715850 0804718903 9780804718905
OCLC Number: 19553029
Description: xv, 446 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: pt. I: Hearts of sorrow --
Introduction --
1. The Vietnamese refugee experience --
2. Creating hearts of sorrow --
pt. II: Vietnam: childhood, youth, and character --
Introduction --
3. I never forget an insult: 1906-1941 --
4. Youngest daughter: 1914-1934 --
5. I grew up without love: 1925-1937 --
6. Make friends with equals: 1927-1940 --
7. Predestined for the religious life: 1934-1952 --
8. Growing up in a Catholic village: 1942-1966 --
9. Childhood in North and South Vietnam: 1946-1968 --
10. Not to beat is not to love: 1963-1979 --
pt. III: Vietnam: sorrows of war --
Introduction --
11. Famine: 1945 --
12. Jailed by the French: 1945-1948 --
13. The execution of my husband: 1946 --
14. Viet Minh and French: 1945-1956 --
15. Memories of Communist Hanoi: 1945-1966 --
16. Viet Cong and Americans: 1956-1969 --
17. War with the Americans and life after: 1965-1980 --
18. The death toll in my family: 1945-1975 --
pt. IV: Vietnam: sorrows of liberation --
Introduction --
19. Saigon falls: 1975 --
20. Prisoner without trial: 1975-1976 --
21. Sent North to die: 1976-1979 --
22. Harshest incarceration: 1979-1981 --
23. Ten Indochinese days: 1975-1978 --
24. Buddhism under Communism: 1975-1978 --
25. Escape from Ban Me Thuot: 1975-1978 --
26. Communist intimidation of schoolboys: 1975-1979 --
27. Visits to a reeducation camp: 1975-1981 --
pt. V: Flight to freedom --
Introduction --
28. Despair in a refugee camp: 1975 --
29. Better to die at sea than to remain: 1975-1976 --
30. People at their worst: 1978-1979 --
31. Perilous journey: 1979 / Joseph D. Gosha --
32. Bien Hoa jail: 1981 --
33. Brutality in a Thai refugee camp: 1982 --
pt. VI: America: heartache beneath success --
Introduction --
34. I will die lonely and abandoned: 1975-1985 --
35. I cannot learn English: 1975-1984 --
36. We cannot walk in our neighborhood: 1976-1982 --
37. God made me a hard-working man: 1978-1983 --
38. They tell me their troubles: 1979-1984 --
39. I want to live without trouble: 1980-1984 --
40. Victim of a youth gang stabbing: 1981-1982 --
41. My daughter neglects me: 1984 --
pt. VII: Interpretations --
42. Implications for biography.
Responsibility: James M. Freeman.
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