Dragon Apparent
Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
Published on 16. December 2011
335 pages
978-1-906011-79-6 (ISBN)
Description
Travelling through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the twilight of the French colonial regime, Norman Lewis witnesses these ancient civilisations as they were before the terrible devastation of the Vietnam War. He creates a portrait of traditional societies struggling to retain their integrity in the embrace of the West. He meets emperors and slaves, brutal plantation owners and sympathetic French officers trapped by the economic imperatives of the colonial experiment. From tribal animists to Viet-Minh guerillas, he witnesses this heart-breaking struggle over and over, leaving a vital portrait of a society on the brink of catastrophic change.
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Content
- Intro
- A Dragon Apparent
- Contents
- Preface to the 1982 edition
- Background
- Saigon and the Vietnamese
- The Universal Religion
- Sunday Diversions
- A Convoy to Dalat
- Région Inconnue
- Ban Méthuot
- The Moïs
- Darlac
- The Rhadés
- The Vanishing Tribes
- Central Annam
- Cholon and Cochin-China
- Into Cambodia
- King Norodom's Capital
- Angkor
- Bandit Country
- Laos
- The Road to Xien Khouang
- Into the Meo Country
- The Viet-Minh
- About the Author
