Quoc Hoc - Hue High School For The Gifted

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This guide to Quoc Hoc - Hue High School For The Gifted in Hue follows one of the poets this century-old French academy produced: a grieving twelve-year-old, admitted in the nineteen thirties, who found banned books circulating beneath its official French curriculum. You'll hear how a teacher gave him the pen name To Huu, how the youth league he led met in secret on this campus, and what happened when French authorities caught up with the poet the school had accidentally trained. Listen from the shaded courtyard where students still gather under the same old trees.