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| 12742. A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF SAIGON. Overview of this large topic, trying to emphasize Vietnamese point of view and years before America's intrusion in the '60s. Early history shows a borderland backwater, under imperial pressures from Asia and Europe, transformed by French colonialism into a metropolis; colonial period marked by extreme resistance of Vietnamese to French rule, yet their ready acceptance of modern economic & social cultures. Wide-ranging view of the post-1954 period, from the attempt to ban padded bras to the culture of violent assaults on lone Americans; emphasizes the vast cultural changes of the American era, which essentially came and went in a dozen years, and ended with the disappearance of Saigon (into Ho Chi Minh City). 12p. 10b. 31 f. |
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