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" The sacred willow : "
Duong Van Mai Elliott.
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BL
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623653
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Elliott, Duong Van Mai,1941-
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| Title & Author
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The sacred willow : : four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family /\ Duong Van Mai Elliott.
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xvi, 506 pages :: genealogical table, maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0195124340 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-480) and index.
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| Contents
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A burial in the night -- Shut gate and high walls -- The silk merchant -- French veneer, Confucian soul -- Taxes, floods, and robbers -- The third month in the year of the famine -- The head on the roof -- Into the resistance zone -- Poison and bribes -- The fall of a border garrison -- Sifting through the rubble -- The new mecca -- Just cause -- Short peace, long war -- Flying into the unknown -- The spoils of victory -- The hours of gold and jade.
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Elliott, Duong Van Mai,1941-Family.
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Duong family.
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Vietnam, History, 19th century.
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Vietnam, History, 20th century.
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Vân Đình (Vietnam), Genealogy.
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Vietnam, Genealogy.
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| Dewey Classification
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959.704
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DS556.8.E44 1999
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