The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
In a re-education camp in the jungle of Thanh Hóa, the writer met a family of two pretty women and their elderly grandfather. They were 'residents of nominated address', which meant they had to live where they were told. In all cases, this was from one jungle to another. They were punished because the grandfather had been an district level administrator before 1954.