Drowned in Romances, Tears, and Rivers Young Women's Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Vietnam
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: In the summer we take pleasure in visiting the deep lake. In the autumn we drink the toxic brew. In the winter we recite poems about leaving this life. 1 These lines, illustrated by a four-panel cartoon, appeared on the front cover of Phong Hoa (Customs), a weekly newspaper published in Hanoi, in January 1936 (see Figure 1). Phong Hoa was founded by Nguyen Tuong Tam,2 who is better known as Nhat Linh, the leader of an organization of Vietnamese literati called the Tu Luc Van Doan (Self-Reliant Literary Group). The newspaper openly and critically reflected Vietnam’s contemporary social issues with a sense of acerbic humor. These four verses parody a
Author: Linh D. Vũ
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2110303656