A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

by Norman Lewis

Overview

Travelling through Vietnam, Laos & 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 guerrillas, he witnesses this heart-breaking struggle over and over, leaving a vital portrait of a society on the brink of catastrophic change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780907871330
Publisher:	Eland Books
Publication date:	12/19/2003
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface to the 1982 edition	9
	Background	15
1	Saigon and the Vietnamese	19
2	The Universal Religion	31
3	Sunday Diversions	49
4	A Convoy to Dalat	56
5	Region Inconnue	71
6	Ban Methuot	88
7	The Mois	93
8	Darlac	103
9	The Rhades	123
10	The Vanishing Tribes	135
11	Central Annam	152
12	Cholon and Cochin-China	175
13	Into Cambodia	198
14	King Norodom's Capital	210
15	Angkor	223
16	Bandit Country	247
17	Laos	258
18	The Road to Xien Khouang	270
19	Into the Meo Country	286
20	The Viet-Minh	306
	Index	326
	About the author	332