Sacred Willow Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

Name: Sacred Willow Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
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ISBN: 9780195137873

ISBN-10: 0195137876

ISBN-13: 9780195137873

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Mai Elliott, Mai Elliott

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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:…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.29" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Maps


Family Tree



A Burial in the Night



Shut Gate and High Walls



The Silk Merchant



French Veneer, Confucian Soul



Taxes, Floods, and Robbers



The Third Month in the Year of the Famine



The Head on the Roof



Into the Resistance Zone



Poison and Bribes



The Fall of a Border Garrison



Sifting Through the Rubble



The New Mecca



Just Cause



Short Peace, Long War



Flying Into the Unknown



The Spoils of Victory



The Hours of Gold and Jade


Epilogue: Across the Four Seas


Bibliography


Index