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.

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 betwe...

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