Down and Out in Saigon

A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon   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...