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A Lolita of the Far East

The setting is colonial Vietnam. A man of thirty-two falls in love with a girl of fifteen-and-a-h...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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Love in the Time of Colonies

Review of Marguerite Duras' Indochina novel The Lover.

Vietnam / Indochina Kenneth Champeon

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Motorcycling in Vietnam

Vietnam is probably not the place to learn how to ride a motorcycle. The streets of Hanoi and Ho ...

Vietnam Robert Strauss

Ann, Virginia, 1996

An Enduring Classic: Ann Caddell Crawford's Customs and Culture of Vietnam

If you poke around any book shop in Vietnam that sells foreign language books, one of the first t...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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The Giant and the Pissant: A Fairy Tale

Review of Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, Penguin Books, 1997.

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

A roadside bookstand

The Write Stuff: Bookstores of Saigon

Everyone who's anyone, or at least every foreigner who reads in Saigon, has been talking about it...

Vietnam Kim Fay

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Everything a Business Traveler Always Wanted to Know About Saigon

The 1990s were a great decade for Vietnam. The United States loosened its stranglehold on trade, ...

Vietnam Kim Fay

Images of Vietnam: Ethnic Minorities

A story told with photos.

Vietnam Kraig Lieb

Hollywood's Vietnam

Title: Hollywood's Vietnam. From The Green Berets to Full Metal Jacket . Author: Gilbert Adair Pu...

Vietnam ThingsAsian Booklist

Our Cassandra in Saigon

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. -from The Quiet American...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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Backseat Driving - Rules of the Road

1. What are you waiting for? You only have two weeks before getting on your motorcycle. Go put yo...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

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Portrait of an Anti-hero

Review of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , Broadway Books, 1999.

Vietnam / Myanmar / Laos Kenneth Champeon

Day or night, Ho Chi Minh City is full of life. The swimming pool at the New World Hotel looks down on the swarm of bicyclists.

Driving Highway One: Ho Chi Minh City

Return to Driving Highway One by Lisa Spivey

Vietnam Lisa Spivey

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Cholon, en langue annamite, cela signifie "Grand Marché". Et c'est bien vrai: Cholon n'est qu'un...

Vietnam André Surmer

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A Slice of Southeast Asia in Southern California

Some Lowdown On The Highlights of Little Saigon Do you need to board a plane to visit the Far Eas...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

Recipes & Photos for 'Indochine' Vietnamese Dinner

Nuoc Cham Dipping Sauce 1/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup nuoc mam (nam pla) Asian fish sauce 1 cu...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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Shipwrecks Off the Coast of Vietnam

1617 - Nuestra Senora De Loreto A Spanish galleon lost off the coast of northern Vietnam, in the ...

Vietnam ThingsAsian

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Lessons Unlearned: Gabriel Kolko's Anatomy of a War

Review of Kolko, Gabriel. Anatomy of a war : Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historica...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

A Brush with the Famous - Art in Vietnam

The smirking canvas of the Mona Lisa rides pillion on Tran Minh Tam's motorcycle, as he roars thr...

Vietnam Susan Storm

Images of Vietnam: the Beaches

A story told with photos.

Vietnam Kraig Lieb

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