THE SACRED WILLOW. Four Generations in the Life of of a Vietnamese Family
de ELLIOTT, Duong Van Mai;
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Oxford & New York: Published by Oxford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.xx + 506, black & white photographs. bibliography, index. quarter black cloth hardcover in pictorial complete dust wrapper.Very good copy. In The Sacred Willow Mai Elliott tells the story of her family over four generations from the 19th century to the present. She takes us back to a vanished world where her great grandfather rose from poverty to become a Mandarin at the Imperial Court, through French colonial rule and then to the splitting of families through war and communism. Finally to the fall of Saigon, the exodus of the boat people and the re-education camps endured by those who were left behind.
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- THE SACRED WILLOW. Four Generations in the Life of of a Vietnamese Family
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- ELLIOTT, Duong Van Mai;
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- Published by Oxford University Press
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- Oxford & New York
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- 1999
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- BIOGRAPHY, VIETNAM, VIETNAMESE HISTORY.
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