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  title info:
    title: Dumb luck
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Só̂ đỏ. English
  name:
    name part: Vũ, Trọng Phụng
    name part: 1912-1939
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Nguyẽ̂n, Nguyệt Cà̂m.
  name:
    name part: Zinoman, Peter
    name part: 1965-
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: vie
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the absurd and unexpected rise within colonial society of a street-smart vagabond named Red-haired Xuan. As it charts Xuan's fantastic social ascent, the novel provides a panoramic view of late colonial urban social order, from the filthy sidewalks of Hanoi's old commercial quarter to the gaudy mansions of the emergent Francophile northern upper classes. The transformation of traditional Vietnamese class and gender relations triggered by the growth of colonial capitalism represents a major theme of the novel.Dumb Luck is the first translation of a major work by Vu Trong Phung, arguably the greatest Vietnamese writer of the twentieth century. The novel's clever plot, richly drawn characters and humorous tone and its preoccupation with sex, fashion and capitalism will appeal to a wide audience. It will appeal to students and scholars of Vietnam, comparative literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and Southeast Asian civilization.Vu Trong Phung died in Hanoi, in 1939 at the age of twenty-seven. He is the author of at least eight novels, seven plays, and several other works of fiction in addition to Dumb Luck.
  note: by Vũ Trọng Phụng ; Peter Zinoman, editor ; translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Peter Zinoman ; with an introduction by Peter Zinoman.
  note: Originally published: Só̂ đỏ : Hanoi, 1936.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    topic: Social change
    geographic: Vietnam
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PL4378.9.V86 A6 2002
  classification: 895.92233
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory
  identifier: 0472068040 (paper : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780472068043 (paper : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2003265638
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/2003265638.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/2003265638.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 030228
    record change date: 20151109084532.0
    record identifier: in00002402661