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Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France

By Charles Keith

Book information

Publisher
Univ of california press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520396869, 0520396863
Google Books ID
ocjrEAAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
61 MB (64376111 bytes)
Pages
399\400
Time added
2024-03-03 14:43:18

Description

During the era of French colonial rule in Indochina, as many as two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France. Subjects and Sojourners is a vivid and comprehensive social, cultural, and political history of this diverse group, which ranged from ruling monarchs to the most marginal laborers. Drawing from a range of rich but underused archives, Charles Keith explores how French colonialism extended Indochina’s colonial society into France, where Indochinese subjects studied, labored, fought, and lived in imperial spaces and contexts that were profoundly different from those they had left behind. Time in France transformed these sojourners, and when they returned to Indochina, they in turn transformed colonial society. Indochinese, in short, did not simply encounter “France” in the colony: they went and lived it for themselves.

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