In search of the history of the Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-75

Li Tana

In search of the history of the Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-75

Li Tana^*

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Abstract

Year 2008 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the peak of ‘Boat People’ exodus, a movement started at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This war resulted in some three million people leaving their homes in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. While much attention has been given to the boat people over the last three decades, little has been done on the society they left behind. Even less has been done on the overseas Chinese, who, as a group were made scapegoats for Hanoi’s inability to achieve socialism in the south, and who formed a large part of the boat people in the late 1970s.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora
Subtitle of host publication	Revisiting the boat people
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	52-61
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9780203813102
ISBN (Print)	9780415613101
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2012

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In search of the history of the Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-75

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