Alfred Raquez and the French experience of the Far East, 1898-1906. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William L. Gibson.
• Authors: Gibson, William, 1974-
• Contents: 1. Mitchell-Innes and Orts – Who is M. Raquez? - Batavia – King Norodom and Master Léopold – A Water-borne Mirage – Doctor of Law - Slow Boat to China 2. In the Land of Pagodas – Exote Flâneur Punk - The Paris of the Orient – General Chen Jitong - Not a single li is level - The Sounds of Guiyang – Vérascope Richard – Mayflies 3. Sugar Stick – Bird or Mouse? - Governor General Doumer – Endangered Species - Liquor and Opium – I always carry a khene in my luggage - Good Enough to Eat - Muang Sing - Soul-piercing Desolation – Le Comptoir Laotien 4. Le Petit Lac - F. H. Schneider – Laotian Pages - Mysterious Angkor - L'exposition de Hanoi – Human Zoos - Adventures with the Press Corps - Governor General Beau – War with Challaye 5. Famine in Guangxi, Railroads in Guangzhou - Norodom's Last Bon Om Touk - Salome in Singapore – Chulalongkorn's Jubilee - Sel Hybat - Is the Emperor Mad? - Even the dead are partying – Farewell to the King of the Khmers – Typhoon 6. Adieu, Hanoi - The Conquest of Hearts - Instructions pour les voyageurs - Postcards and Singing Ghosts - What Day is This? - Sisavang Vong's Dancing Rats - Everyone wanted to see the King's funeral pyre 7. Home Again - The Colonial Exposition of 1906 – Pigeon Coop – La plus gracieuse des Ballerines laotiennes – Sisowath's Royal Troupe - Avant Garde Exoticism – The Christopher Columbus of Laos – Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 8. Black Pox or Death by Valentine? - Eulogies and Monuments - L'affaire Gervais - Loose Ends – The Unknowable - Fading Traces – The Repressed Returns 9. Longing for the Past
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 959.703; Europeans -- Indochina -- History; French -- Indochina -- History; Indochina -- Description and travel; Indochina -- Social life and customs; Travel -- Indochina
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000379754; 9781000379747; 9781003145226
• Related ISBNs: 9780367702489
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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