Quang Hai
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I am reading Trip to Hanoi by Susan Sontag
She visits Hanoi Vietnam during the war with America. She hears the guide's story about two women general in AD 40 which was over one thousand years earlier than Joan of Arc.
"The first successful Vietnamese uprising against foreign rule, in AD 40, was led by two women generals, the Trung sisters. That was over a thousand years before Joan of Arc, our woman guide at the museum added, as if to indicate we hadn’t registered the proper surprise at the idea of a woman general. And you also have two of them, I joked back. She smiled slightly, then went on: "The tradition of the two sisters remains until now. In the present struggle many ladies have shown themselves worthwhile."
May I read the underlined words as "we did not have correct understanding on the surprise what woman general created"?
Please kindly help me out. Thanks!
She visits Hanoi Vietnam during the war with America. She hears the guide's story about two women general in AD 40 which was over one thousand years earlier than Joan of Arc.
"The first successful Vietnamese uprising against foreign rule, in AD 40, was led by two women generals, the Trung sisters. That was over a thousand years before Joan of Arc, our woman guide at the museum added, as if to indicate we hadn’t registered the proper surprise at the idea of a woman general. And you also have two of them, I joked back. She smiled slightly, then went on: "The tradition of the two sisters remains until now. In the present struggle many ladies have shown themselves worthwhile."
May I read the underlined words as "we did not have correct understanding on the surprise what woman general created"?
Please kindly help me out. Thanks!
