Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:57:19 +1000
Subject: Re: Novels about Indochina


Hello Bill, 

Could you please send me some details about next thursday, the time when
you expect me to give my paper.

I came across this email which i received through my mailing list. I
thought this might be of your interest. 

At 12:54 30-9-98 +0000, you wrote:
>I just returned from Viet Nam and read a wonderful anthology while there,
>available in the U.S. and U.K.
>
>Lockhart, Greg and Monique Lockhart, trans., ed. The Light of the Capital:
>Three Modern Vietnamese Classics.
>Kuala Lumpur and Oxford: Oxford in Asia Paperbacks. OUP, 1996.
>
>The introductory essay by G. Lockhart is excellent, and all three novels
>(by Tam Lang, Vu Trong Phung, and Nguyen Hong) are fine examples of
>social-realist reportage about the Hanoi area in the 1920s and 1930s, when
>the city entered a period of urban growth the authors claim is paralleled
>by the post-reform period today.
>
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Good luck with the conference. 

Loes  
Loes Westerbeek
Deakin University
Faculty of Arts
Burwood campus
221 Burwood Highway
Victoria 3125
Australia

Tel:  (03) 9244 3874
Fax: (03) 9244 6755	
Email: loesw-AT-deakin.edu.au


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