From a Chinese City: In the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam by Gontran De Poncins
From a Chinese City: In the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam

Gontran De Poncins

From a Chinese City: In the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam

Gontran De Poncins

262 pages first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction travel informative reflective medium-paced
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Written in 1995, this diary and sketchbook vividly portrays Vietnamese and Chinese traditions.A Frenchman's portrait of Cholon, a Chinese section of Saigon, in the 1950s is "very vivid and true," according to Linh Dinh, who spent two years there h...

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