The Light of the Capital: Three Modern Vietnamese Classics

by Nguyen Hung, Vũ Trọng Phụng, Tam Lang, et al.

Book Overview

Set in the colonial era of Vietnam amid rapid urban transformation, this book offers in translation three seminal works that represent the first fine flowering of Vietnamese non-fiction writing.
"I Pulled a Rickshaw," Tam Lang's startling reportage written in 1932 after the onset of the Great Depression, is the first of its kind to depict people from the new underclasses that had formed in early modern Hanoi. Also set in Hanoi is Vu Trong Phung's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 967653093X
• ISBN13: 9789676530936
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"