The Tay Son Rebellion: Historical Fiction of Eighteenth-Century Vietnam - Paperback

by David Lindsay Jr. (Author)

The Tay Son Rebellion covers a major civil war in Vietnam. The country had been divided into north and south for 150 years: the Trinh dynasty in the north, and the Nguyen dynasty in the South. Both dynasties allowed corruption to grow, and their people suffered. The three Ho brothers started a peasant uprising in the center, in Tay Son, and eventually defeated both warlords. They let a young Nguyen prince escape, and he is helped by a French Catholic Bishop, who raises a small French Navy in India to help the young Prince Nguyen Anh attack the Ho brothers. The outcome helps determine important parameters of modern Vietnam. More at TheTaySonRebellion.com.

Author Biography

David Lindsay, Jr. is a writer, blogger, accountant, dance caller and folk music performer living in Hamden, Connecticut. He conceived of The Tay Son Rebellion after studying American-East Asian Relations at Yale where he earned a BA degree in history in the spring of 1976, with a thesis titled The Cold War and The American War in Vietnam. He graduated a year after the American War in Vietnam ended. You can learn more about The Tay Son Rebellion and view David's journal of his three weeks in Vietnam in 2010 - about visiting many of the sites in the book - by visiting his blog On Vietnam, located at TheTaySonRebellion.com: category, Travel in Vietnam, Trip to Vietnam #1 week 1. The same website is also called DavidLindsayJr.com. He also blogs at InconvenientNewsWorldwide. Wordpress.com, focused on World Affairs: Politics, the Environment (Climate Change and Population Growth), the Drug Wars, and the Arts, and Inconvenient News.Word press.com covering the same issues in the United States. This book, The Tay Son Rebellion, has a story of its own. David first drafted it writing part time over ten years between 1978 and 1988. Failing to find a publisher, the author went off to business school, where he earned an MBA from the University of Washington in 1991. He also got married, had three children, and worked in IT, and bookkeeping and accounting with private companies and non-profits for the next nineteen years. In 2010, a tennis ball hit him on the head, and he went back to working on this book.