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Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon
Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese labourer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a destitute Frenchman—and how they navigated the ups and downs of the regional rice trade and the institutions of French colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century.
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A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon
Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese labourer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a destitute Frenchman—and how they navigated the ups and downs of the regional rice trade and the institutions of French colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Hardback
2019
ISBN: 9780300218251
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