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Hoskins, J. (2007)

Postcards from the Edge of Empire: Images and Messages from French Indochina

Article / Letter to editor
Postcards from French colonies are sold today as nostalgic evocations of a vanished world. The erotic, opiuminfused images of Indochina have been particularly popular since the elegant fiction of exotic utopia they depict was carefully constructed to justify the colonial enterprise.
Photography
Colonial history
All authors
Hoskins, J.
Date
2007
Journal
IIAS Newsletter
Volume
44
Pages
16 - 17
Publisher
IIAS, Leiden