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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39633628 Title: The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family Author: Duong Van Mai Elliott Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0195124340 9780195124347 0195137876 9780195137873 OCLC:39633628

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The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family

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The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family

Author:	Duong Van Mai Elliott
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The author tells the story of four generations of her family, from the nineteenth century through the 1990s, in an effort to show the impact of historical events and politics on Vietnamese families.
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Genre/Form:	Généalogies
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 1941- Sacred willow. New York : Oxford University Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607127350 Online version: Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 1941- Sacred willow. New York : Oxford University Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607843867
Named Person:	Duong Van Mai Elliott; Duong family.; Duong Van Mai Elliott; Duong (Famille); Duong (Family); Duong Van Mai Elliott
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Duong Van Mai Elliott Find more information about:
ISBN:	0195124340 9780195124347 0195137876 9780195137873
OCLC Number:	39633628
Description:	xvi, 506 p. : geneal. table, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:	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
Responsibility:	Duong Van Mai Elliott.
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This narrative is woven from the lives of four generations of the author's family, and illuminates unfamiliar strands of Vietnamese history. The story begins with her grandfather's rise from poverty Read more...

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<br>"This family's saga is as engrossing as fine literary fiction and is, besides, indispensable to understanding Vietnam from a Vietnamese perspective.--The New Yorker<p><br>

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