CHAPTER 9 Childhood in North and South Vietnam: 1946-1968

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. Guide to Narrators xiv
5. PART I Hearts of Sorrow
6. Introduction 1
7. CHAPTER 1 The Vietnamese Refugee Experience 7
8. CHAPTER 2 Creating Hearts of Sorrow 21
9. PART II Vietnam: Childhood, Youth, and Character
10. Introduction 25
11. CHAPTER 3 I Never Forget an Insult: 1906-1941 31
12. CHAPTER 4 Youngest Daughter: 1914-1934 52
13. CHAPTER 5 I Grew Up Without Love: 1925-1937 68
14. CHAPTER 6 Make Friends with Equals: 1927-1940 75
15. CHAPTER 7 Predestined for the Religious Life: 1932-1952 79
16. CHAPTER 8 Growing Up in a Catholic Village: 1942-1966 87
17. CHAPTER 9 Childhood in North and South Vietnam: 1946-1968 91
18. CHAPTER 10 Not to Beat Is Not to Love: 1963-1979 100
19. PART III Vietnam: Sorrows of War
20. Introduction 109
21. CHAPTER 11 Famine: 1945 113
22. CHAPTER 12 Jailed by the French: 1945-1948 124
23. CHAPTER 13 The Execution of My Husband: 1946 136
24. CHAPTER 14 Viet Minh and French: 1945-195 142
25. CHAPTER 15 Memories of Communist Hanoi: 1945-1966 157
26. CHAPTER 16 Viet Cong and Americans: 1956-1969 169
27. CHAPTER 17 War with the Americans and Life After: 1965-1980 181
28. CHAPTER 18 The Death Toll in My Family: 1945-1975 189
29. PART IV Vietnam: Sorrows of Liberation
30. Introduction 197
31. CHAPTER 19 Saigon Falls: 1975 201
32. CHAPTER 20 Prisoner Without Trial: 1975-1976 209
33. CHAPTER 21 Sent North to Die: 1976-1979 224
34. CHAPTER 22 Harshest Incarceration: 1979-1981 243
35. CHAPTER 23 Ten Indochinese Days: 1975-1978 255
36. CHAPTER 24 Buddhism Under Communism: 1975-1978 271
37. CHAPTER 25 Escape from Ban Me Thuot: 1975-1978 275
38. CHAPTER 26 Communist Intimidation of Schoolboys: 1975-1979 279
39. CHAPTER 27 Visits to a Reeducation Camp: 1975-198I 283
40. PART V Flight to Freedom
41. Introduction 289
42. CHAPTER 28 Despair in a Refugee Camp: 1975 293
43. CHAPTER 29 Better to Die at Sea Than to Remain: 1975-1976 303
44. CHAPTER 30 People at Their Worst: 1978-1979 313
45. CHAPTER 31 Perilous Journey: 1979 320
46. CHAPTER 32 Bien Hoa Jail: 1981 336
47. CHAPTER 33 Brutality in a Thai Refugee Camp: 1982 343
48. PART VI America: Heartache Beneath Success
49. Introduction 351
50. CHAPTER 34 I Will Die Lonely and Abandoned: 1975-1985 357
51. CHAPTER 35 I Cannot Learn English: 1975-1984 369
52. CHAPTER 36 We Cannot Walk in Our Neighborhood: I 976- I 982 376
53. CHAPTER 37 God Made Me a Hard Working Man: 1978-1983 382
54. CHAPTER 38 They Tell Me Their Troubles: 1979-1984 391
55. CHAPTER 39 I Want to Live Without Trouble: 1980-1984 409
56. CHAPTER 40 Victim of a Youth Gang Stabbing: I981-1982 414
57. CHAPTER 41 My Daughter Neglects Me: 1984 424
58. PART VII Interpretations
59. CHAPTER 42 Implications for Biography 427
60. Bibliography 441