TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trần,Trụ Đình
AU  - Leong,Russell
AU  - Lipman,Jana
AU  - Lipman,Jana K.
AU  - Tran,Bac Hoai
AU  - Yoo,David K.
TI  - Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate 
T2  - Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
SN  - 9780824867171
U1  - 305.9/06914092 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Political refugees
KW  - Guam
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Personal narratives, Vietnamese
KW  - HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter One. My Early Life --; Chapter Two. Coming of Age --; Chapter Three. The Evacuation --; Chapter Four. The Refugee Camp on Orote Point --; Chapter Five. The Repatriates --; Chapter Six. Give Us a Ship --; Chapter Seven. Camp Asan, Guam --; Chapter Eight. The Struggle --; Chapter Nine. The Việt Nam Thương Tín --; Chapter Ten. Receiving the Ship --; Chapter Eleven. Leaving Guam --; Chapter Twelve. The Return Voyage --; Chapter Thirteen. Arrival at Vũng Tàu --; Chapter Fourteen. Reeducation Camps --; Chapter Fifteen. Moving from Camp to Camp --; Chapter Sixteen. Winds of Political Change --; Chapter Seventeen. The Day I Left Prison --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family finally immigrated to the United States, Trần Đình Trụ's memoir provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese reeducation camps.In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States. While waiting in the Guam refugee camps, however, approximately 1,500 Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being repatriated back to Vietnam. Trụ was one of these repatriates. To resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the Vietnamese a large ship, the Việt Nam Thương Tín. An experienced naval commander, Trụ became the captain of the ship and sailed the repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, Trụ was imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.Trụ's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam, internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps. While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824872434
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824872434
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824872434/original
ER  -