Those Opulent Days” is a historical novel set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, when it was part of colonial French Indochina ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel ...

(Atlantic Monthly Press via AP) It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers.

which was in a section of French Indochina named Annam by the colonizers. Duy, Phong and Minh are all Annamites — with Duy ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

When the idea of liberation springs to mind, I imagine an older Aunty, having migrated to the U.S. decades ago, perched on ...

NADJA LOVADINOV explains why the Peace Pledge Union is launching a new initiative to make sure that the West's colonialist past and present — and its victims — are at the heart of remembrance ...

DEFENSE Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. is correct in dismissing the idea of establishing a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-like alliance in Southeast Asia. Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru ...

The Alexander Coeur family first came to Humboldt in the 1880s, and started the Freshwater Store in 1894. Harold Coeur, a ...

A major work by Boullard-Devé is a large portfolio of twenty printed plates entitled “Visions of Indochina”. Published in 1929, the portfolio includes a foreword by the French writer Marc Chadoune.

Eighteen exceptional movies from Europe will present a cast of ordinary characters who find themselves in circumstances that ...