Title The sacred willow : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family / Duong Van Mai Elliott

Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 506 pages) : genealogical table, maps Series OUP E-Books Summary Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow, an extraordinary narrative woven from the lives of four generations of her family, illuminates fascinating-and until now unexplored-strands of Vietnamese history. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential mandarin, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop-and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She reveals the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping with her infant son in jungle camps, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon-including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter.; Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga, but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times. At times haunting, at times heartbreaking-it is always mesmerizing-The Sacred Willow will forever change how we view the history of Vietnam and our own role in it Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-480) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 1941- -- Family Duong family. Duong family. Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 1941- Elliott, Duong Van Mai. HISTORY. Families. Autobiografie Genealogie Families. Vietnam -- History -- 19th century. Vietnam -- History -- 20th century. Vân Đình (Vietnam) -- Genealogy Vietnam -- Genealogy Vietnam. Vietnam -- Vân Đình. Südvietnam Genre/Form Family histories. History Genealogy. Family histories. Histoires familiales. Form Electronic book LC no. 98014204 ISBN 9780195124347 0195124340 1429404655 9781429404655 1280530138 9781280530135 9786610530137 6610530130

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