Geoffrey C. Gunn

Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong

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Produktbeschreibung

With extradition a major political issue today, this examination of the legal case of Ho Chi Minh in colonial Hong Kong offers timely insights into rule of law and extradition issues in general. Gunn sheds new light on Ho Chi Minh, communist and anti-colonial networks and Franco-British relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781108978224
• ISBN-10: 1108978223
• Artikelnr.: 66874527

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey C. Gunn is Emeritus Professor at Nagasaki University, Japan, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Macau, China. His previously published work includes Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam: The Great Vietnam Famine and the Viet Minh Rise to Power 1930¿45 (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Setting up in Hong Kong and arrest
2. Early life in France and move back to Asia
3. The parallel case of Tan Malaka
4. In revolutionary Guangzhou
5. Mounting the defense: Ho Chi Minh's prison experience
6. Legal process: Trial and tribulations
7. Media coverage of the arrest and trial
8. The French diplomatic demarche
9. The privy council verdict, release and afterlife
Epilogue.