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Lives in the Lotus Blossom, Chapter 09: A Guest Writer on Viet Nam

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October 2nd 2007
For the longest time, I have been trying to coax Lao-puo into keeping her own blog, because her perspective and style are both quite different from my own. She has been too busy, between the two waifs and her Chinese class, to do much writing. She finally relented and asked to do a chapter in mine. So. Here she is. "Doug and I had the most incredible weekend in Vietnam. We did all that we ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City » Cu Chi

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more