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Pearson, James (Reuters) james.pearson@thomsonreuters.com
Thu Sep 27 20:16:56 PDT 2018
Can anyone recommend some good books on the building of colonial Hanoi? I've just finished Michael Vann's "Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", which was brilliant and a very thoughtful and entertaining way into the history and issues around France's grand aspirations of colonial modernity. But I'm struggling to find many other texts which use Hanoi, the city, as the vehicle with which to tell that story.
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Balazs Szalontai aoverl@yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 21:17:35 PDT 2018
Dear James and All,
you might be interested in some of these old French books, all of which can be freely downloaded from this site:
https://archive.org/details/LExpositionDeHanoEn1902/page/n11https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012643322/page/n37https://archive.org/details/lespagodesdehano00dumo/page/n7
https://archive.org/details/excursionindoch00orle/page/n5
https://archive.org/details/situationdelind00doumgoog/page/n25
https://archive.org/details/troisansenindoch00pann/page/24
All the best,Balazs SzalontaiKorea University, Sejong Campus
Pearson, James (Reuters) james.pearson@thomsonreuters.com
Thu Sep 27 21:23:55 PDT 2018
Thank you Balazs, and how nice to hear from you again on this side of the world.
These are excellent – thank you. If you also know of some broader studies or overviews, like Vann’s Hanoi Rat Hunt, but perhaps with more granular detail, please do let me know.
Lisa Drummond drummond@yorku.ca
Fri Sep 28 07:07:50 PDT 2018
You’ve probably already read Bill Logan’s book on the architecture and planning of Hanoi. But if not, it’s an excellent place to start:
Logan, W. S. (2000). Hanoi: Biography of a city. UNSW Press.
You might find Shaun Malarney’s translation of and introductory chapter to Lục Xì to be useful, too:
Phụng, V. T. (2011). Lục Xì: Prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi. University of Hawai'i Press.
Immodestly, I can also suggest the following chapter which may be of interest:
Drummond, Lisa B Welch (2013) Colonial Hanoi: Urban Space in Public Discourse. In Victor Zatsepine and Laura Victoir (eds) From Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840-1940. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 207-230.
Happy reading.
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Margaret Suzanne Barnhill Bodemer mbodemer@calpoly.edu
Fri Sep 28 13:20:55 PDT 2018
Hello all,
In addition to Lisa's excellent suggestions, is this recent volume. It presents a comparative analysis of Hanoi and a city in Africa:
Cities in Relations : Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou Book Cover Image by Ola Söderström , and Ola Soderstrom
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Joe Hannah jhannah@uw.edu
Fri Sep 28 13:53:14 PDT 2018
There are at least 2 chapters that may be useful for ideological/historical context in
Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History by Vimalin Rujivacharakul (Editor), H. Hazel Hahn (Editor), Ken Tadashi Oshima (Editor), Peter Christensen (Editor)
H. Hazel Hahn “Abstract Spaces of Asia, Indochina, and Empire in the French Imaginaire”
Caroline Herbelin “Construire le style indochinois: Identity Formation through Geopolitical Territory and Architecture”
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