Quê Mẹ 107

Table of Contents

• Reading “Rupture” (Ly than), a book confiscated by Public Security in Saigon, 1989 Thi Vũ
• Democracy in Vietnam: the need for a Shadow Cabinet Võ Văn Ái
• Vietnamese Guest-workers in the USSR Quê Mẹ
• Love stories from a Communist regime Trần Lộc Bình
• News in brief: 8,600 arrested in police crackdown, December 1989 :
  – Novelist Duong Thu Hương arrested in Vietnam
  – Release of writer Hoang Hai Thuy
  – Vietnamese Deputy Director of Public Security in France for hospital treatment
  – Resistance fighters stand trial
  – VPC Secretary General Nguyén Van Linh meets the “Veterans Club” of former Resistance fighters
  – Counterfeit alcohol floods the market Quê Mẹ
• Comment on the recent series of “open letters for democracy” which propose no real solution Phù Hoa
• Confrontation or conciliation with the Communists? Lê Hữu Trách
• Open letter of the “Veterans Club” of former Resistance fighters in Saigon Quê Mẹ
• The Indictment of Hoang Minh Chinh, author of an aborted coup in Hanoi Phạm Kiên Tâm
• Khát Vọng, the underground students magazine Ngân Hà
• Khát Vọng and the aspirations of Vietnamese youth Thanh Tâm
• The poetry of Vietnamese youth today Chi Chi
• Khát Vọng and the Tiên An Môn massacres Thạch Thảo
• The different ways an inhuman ideology can die Phan Kế
• Cartoon NHS
• Chronology of Vietnamese civilization (5) Thượng Đăng
• Vietnamese literature during the anti-French resistance (1) Nguyễn Hưng Quốc
• Poems: Mưa xuân :
  – Quà Tế Hoàng Hoa
• The satirical verse of But Tre Mai Hiên
• Poem: Báo Tết Đặng Thế Kiệt
• Traditional rice-cakes Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• Letter to Hoai Trang (short story about Boatpeople) Nguyễn Thượng Vũ
• Poem: Hình như là tình yêu Mây Tần
• Anecdotes on poetess Hô Xuân Hương Bảo Trâm
• Confessions of a communist novelist (extract from the banned novel “Rupture” Trần Mạnh Hảo
• Vietnamese around the world Quê Mẹ
• Strange circles Hoàng Xá