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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 laborer, a ric...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. Paulatim Crescam
- 2. A Woman Who Ran Away
- 3. Between Heaven and Earth
- 4. A Human Horse
- 5. A Holy Childhood
- 6. Tristes Tropiques
- 7. A Prodigal Son
- Epilogue.