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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

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The name 'Saigon' has for decades etched itself into the Western consciousness. For the French, it was the capital of colonial Indochina, the tropical Paris of the Orient. In 1950, Norman Lewis described Saigon thus: 'its inspiration has been purely commercial and it is therefore without folly, fervour or much ostentation...a pleasant, colourless and characterless French provincial city.rnrnThe French got the boot in 1954 and the Americans had a go at remodelling Saigon for about 15 years. When the Communists took over in 1975, they renamed the place Ho Chi Minh City and set about creating their own version of utopia. Little did d they realise that the city they had hoped to change would eventually change them.

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915.97 Sto h

Publisher

: Lonely Planet Publications., 1995

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English

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0 86442 311 X

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915.97

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Ho ChiMinh City

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