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Haydon Cherry
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City.
Yale University Press, 2019. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. First printing. 9780300218251 xviii/259 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is new. 
"Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a destitute Frenchman—and how they navigated the ups and downs of the regional rice trade and the institutions of French colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century."

Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

$35.00Price
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