Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Red Earth : A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation, Paperback / softback Book

The Red Earth : A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation Paperback / softback

Edited by David G. Marr

Part of the Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series series

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics.

The connection between this early experience and later activities of the author becomes clear as we learn that Tran Tu Binh survived imprisonment on Con Son island to help engineer the general uprising in Hanoi in 1945. The Red Earth is the first of dozens of such works by veterans of the 1924–45 struggle in Vietnam to be published in English translation.

It is important reading for all those interested in the many-faceted history of modern Vietnam and of communism in the non-Western world.

Information

Save 11%

£14.99

£13.29

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information