TY - BOOK AU - Tran,Tu Binh AU - Marr,David G. AU - Spragens,John TI - The red earth: a Vietnamese memoir of life on a colonial rubber plantation T2 - Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series SN - 9780896804838 AV - DS556 .R434 1985 PY - 1985/// CY - Athens, OH PB - Ohio University Press KW - Rubber plantations KW - Vietnam KW - Revolutionaries KW - Biography KW - Communists KW - Communism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=844854&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -