Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong

This is the incredible story of Bao Luong, Vietnam's first female political prisoner. In 1927, when she was just eighteen, Bao Luong left her village home to join Ho Chi Minh's Revolutionary Youth League and fight for both national independence and women's equality. A year later, she became embroiled in the Barbier Street murder, a crime in which unruly passion was mixed with revolutionary ardor. By the time of her sensational trial, Bao Luong's beloved Revolutionary Youth League had ceased...