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Sep 1, 1987 · Young Nina, a half Vietnamese, half French teenager--takes over her father's opium empire after he escapes to the Asian jungle while the French are forced out of Vietnam, Ho begins his takeover of the south, and America builds up its disastrous defense of the domino theory.
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- Christie Dickason
Sep 15, 2009 · 1950s The Great Books movement sweeps the country. Originated in 1929 by Robert Maynard Hutchins, who developed a curriculum based on a canon of famous Western works of literature and philosophy,...
Oct 1, 2021 · Directed by Régis Wargnier, Indochine is a 1992 movie set in Vietnam during the 1930s to 1950s, when the country was a colony of France and the Nguyễn Dynasty monarchy was still reigning. The trailer of Indochine opens with a very impressive line that summaries the setting of the movie.
Dec 8, 2021 · In 1926, the idea of what a “book club” could be radically shifted with the introduction of the “Book of the Month” club, launched by a book-lover named Harry Scherman. The club worked on a subscription model, and participants received their books each month, delivered right to their doors.
Bantam Books, 1988 - Fiction - 534 pages Sweeping from lavish opium dens to palm-lined boulevards flowing with the blood of civil strife--from the fortresses of outlaw chiefs to the glittering vice palaces of the Saigon underworld, here is a gripping, dramatic and wonderfully realized novel of an exotic land in turmoil.
indochine by Christie Dickason ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 30, 1987 A sprawling romantic novel in the epic mode (first published in England last year under the title The Dragon Riders) about a half-caste heroine who finds love and adventure in a deeply atmospheric Vietnam.
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Nov 5, 2020 · Bridging the decades from the corruption-rife era of the French occupation to the violent years of the American invasion, Indochine tells, with cinematic intensity, of a lush country exploited from within and without, and of the mysterious Saigon, an open city where crime is the only means to survival and love is a luxury too dangerous to afford.
