The red earth : a Vietnamese memoir of life on a colonial rubber plantation / by Tran Tu Binh as told to Ha An ; translated by John Spragens, Jr. ; edited and introduced by David G. Marr.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction; A Fork in the Road; The Road into Hell; Hell on Earth; The First Battles; The Party Comes To Phu-Rieng; The Hour Before The Storm; The 1930 Struggle of the Phu-rieng Rubber Workers; The Red Seeds of Phu-Rieng; Notes.

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.

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