CHOLON

chōlônˈ, Fr. shôlôNˈ, city, since 1932 part of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai. Cholon is the Chinese section of Ho Chi Minh City; it is connected to the city's left bank by road, rail, and canal waterways. It is an industrial center with many rice mills and factories. Founded c.1780 by Chinese immigrants seeking to escape the civil disorders of Annam, it became a busy trading port long before Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) was developed by the French. It is still largely a Chinese city, containing a large portion of Vietnam's entire Chinese population. Heavy fighting there during the 1968 Tet offensive in the Vietnam War severely damaged the city.

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books on: Cholon  - 144 results

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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade : Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia
Book by Alfred W. McCoy; Lawrence Hill, 2003
Subjects: Drug Traffic--Asia, Southeastern--History--20th Century, Drug Traffic--History--20th Century, Heroin Industry, United States--Central Intelligence Agency
...respectable Chiu chau plastics manufacturer in Cholon, Tran Minh, and the two soon came to...Hai was the link between the Bangkok and Cholon syndicates. After 200 kilos of opium...maze of canals that led to the docks of Cholon. Once the sampan docked at a wharf in...
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Words of the Vietnam War: The Slang, Jargon, Abbreviations, Acronyms, Nomenclature, Nicknames, Pseudonyms, Slogans, Specs, Euphemisms, Double-Talk, Chants, and Names and Places of the Era of United States Involvement in Vietnam
Book by Gregory R. Clark; McFarland, 1990
Subjects: Americanisms--Dictionaries, English Language--United States--Slang--Dictionaries, Military Art And Science--Dictionaries, Soldiers--United States--Language--Dictionaries, United States--History, Military--20th Century--Dictionaries, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Language--Dictionaries
...See also Tax Collecting. Cho Long see Cholon Chock s Wheel Blocks Portable blocks or...but it was Americanized to " choi oi ." Cholon Cho Long Section of Saigon predominantly...Vietnamese of ethnic Chinese origin. Cholon was a small city within a city.During...
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Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks
Book by Thomas Menkhoff, Solvay Gerke; RoutledgeCurzon, 2002
Subjects: Asia, Southeastern--Foreign Economic Relations--China, Business Networks--Asia, Southeastern, Business Networks--China, China--Foreign Economic Relations--Asia, Southeastern, Chinese--Asia, Southeastern--Economic Conditions, Corporate Culture--Asia, Southeastern, Corporate Culture--China, Corporations, Chinese--Asia, Southeastern, Entrepreneurship--Asia, Southeastern, Entrepreneurship--China
Re-emergence of the private sector in Cholon Most enterprises in Cholon were closed down or nationalised after 1975. However...1988 and 1991 when most of the new enterprises in Cholon opened, coinciding with the official recognition...
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Asia: a Regional and Economic Geography
Book by L. Dudley Stamp; Metheun, 1969
Subjects: Asia--Economic Conditions
...of Saigon is the equally interesting town of Cholon, with over 580,000 Chinese. Cholon is the industrial centre, Saigon the business...So rapid has been their growth, that Saigon-Cholon is now a conurbation of over 1,800,000...
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The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras, and Robbe Grillet
Book by Raylene L. Ramsay; University Press of Florida, 1996
Subjects: Autobiography, Duras, Marguerite--Criticism And Interpretation, French Prose Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Robbe-Grillet, Alain--1922---Criticism And Interpretation, Sarraute, Nathalie--Criticism And Interpretation, Self In Literature
...intersected by wide straight avenues , Cholon has a dominant place. "Saigon comprend...populated native suburbs and in particular Cholon, veritable city within a city populated...vie de leurs habitants " pp. 116 - 17 Cholon is famous for its restaurant complexes...
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journal articles on: Cholon  - 14 results

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Doi Moi Policy and the Small-Enterprise Boom in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Journal article by Donald B. Freeman; The Geographical Review, Vol. 86, 1996
Subjects: Economic development--Analysis, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam--Economic aspects, Small business--Economic aspects, Underground economy--Analysis
...neighboring municipalities of Saigon and Cholon, is unchallenged as Vietnams most dynamic...ethnic Chinese, who are concentrated in Cholon), Ho Chi Minh City is the largest and...administrative center of Saigon. Its sister city, Cholon, developed at the same time and gradually...
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"Coming into Being": Mourning, Adolescence and Creativity in Duras's the Lover
Journal article by Laurie Vickroy; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 2003
Subjects: Adolescent psychology--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Creative ability--Psychological aspects, Duras, Marguerite--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Grief--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Grief--Psychological aspects, The Lover (Book)--Psychological aspects
...relationship with the Chines lover from Cholon, the adolescent Duras discovers her sexuality...compare" (38). With the lover from Cholon, Duras makes the passage from girl to...experiences sexual pleasure. The man from Cholon offers Duras further insight into her...
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Vietnam's Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict
Journal article by Gareth Porter; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 12, 1980
Subjects: Asia
...It caused a new panic among the Hoa in Cholon, who sold their goods and immediately...that more than 30 percent of the Hoa in Cholon applied to leave by ship, suggesting...light of the widespread desire of Hoa in Cholon and in the North to leave the country...
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Using Riffaterre to Rehabilitate the Lover
Journal article by Siobhan Brownlie; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2008
Subjects: Adaptation, Case studies, Novels, Reading, Semiotics, Theory
...takes place in the sleazy district of Cholon every evening. Every evening the little...scream, from this dark man, this man from Cholon, from China. The first person is reverted...because she had thought of that man from Cholon, her lover, and suddenly she wasnt sure...
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Inter-Communist Conflicts and Vietnam
Journal article by Anthony Barnett; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 11, 1979
Subjects: Asia
...Chinese were Vietnamese citizens. Beijings demands were such that Cholon, the Chinese quarter of Ho-Chi-Minh-Ville Saigon would...the same month as Hanoi legislated the nationalization of Cholon commerce.) In addition to this astonishing set of political...
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From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 78, April 2006
Subjects: Cities and towns--Description and travel, Hanoi, Vietnam--Description and travel, Hanoi, Vietnam--Economic aspects, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam--Description and travel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam--Economic aspects, Postwar reconstruction--Forecasts and trends, Railroads--Maintenance and repair, Vietnam War, 1959-1975--Economic aspects
...270,000 visitors in the first five months of 2004; incense burns in the temple at Cholon in Ho Chi Minh City. Founded by Chinese immigrants in 1780, Cholon forms the heart of the citys Chinese community and became a busy trading port long before...
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Timing Is Everything
Magazine article by Lowell Weiss; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, January 1994
Subjects: Refugees, Vietnamese--United States, Vietnamese (Southeast Asian people)--Social aspects, Vietnamese (Southeast Asian people)--United States, Vietnamese in the United States--Social aspects, Vietnamese refugees--United States
...distinctively flattened tones, had taken to the seas when the Vietnamese government started cracking down in the southern city of Cholon, which had been the hub of a large Chinese merchant class for more than a century.) The group that fled immediately after...
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Celluloid Wars: Vietnam
Magazine article by Charles Foran; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 112, Summer 2005
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1959-1975--Portrayals, Vietnam--Description and travel, Vietnam--Military aspects, Vietnam--Portrayals, War films--Criticism and interpretation, War in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, War movies--Criticism and interpretation
...penultimate scene in The Quiet American, no less, with Fowler waiting to dine with the agent Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) in Cholon, Saigons Chinatown, once the most notorious neighbourhood in the country, rife with brothels and opium dens and "taxi girls...
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Oriental Originals: Exotic Discoveries in Southeast Asia
Magazine article by Laurel F. Lehrer; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 124, September 1995
Subjects: Cruise ships--South China Sea, South China Sea--Description and travel, Southeast Asia--Description and travel
...with roaring scooters, cars, buses, and bicycles. The bus station was tightly jammed with vehicles. The outdoor market in Cholon (Chinatown) was a sea of busy shoppers. Some stores were poorly lit or dark--not very inviting--but filled with merchandise...
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Doi Moi, Hold the Glasnost
Magazine article by Eric Scigliano; The Nation, Vol. 249, September 25, 1989
Subjects: China Democracy Movement, 1989--International aspects, Economic policy--Vietnam, Vietnam--Economic aspects
...full of wellstocked vendors carrying domestic and imported goods (some with U.S. stores tags still attached), and its Cholon district once again teems and bustles like any other mercantile Chinatown; more than 400 gold. dealers returned to the open...
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newspaper articles on: Cholon  - 4 results

 
 
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Vietnam Photographer Adams Dies
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 20, 2004
...from a single photograph taken February 1, 1968, the second day of the communists Tet Offensive, in the embattled streets of Cholon, Saigons Chinese quarter. Drawn by gunfire, Adams and an NBC film crew watched South Vietnamese soldiers bring a handcuffed...
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Peter Connole, 62, Dental Surgeon
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 20, 1997
Subjects: Washington Hospital Center
...Hospital in Ely, Cambridgeshire. While in the Navy, he was a consulting surgeon for Childrens Medical Relief International in Cholon, Vietnam; head of oral surgery at the naval hospital in Oakland, Calif.; and chairman of the department of oral surgery...
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A Mini-Tet Offensive ?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 16, 2004
Subjects: National Liberation Front
...also neutralized much of the clandestine communist infrastructure. As South Vietnamese troops fought Viet Cong remnants in Cholon, the predominantly Chinese twin city of Saigon, reporters, sipping drinks in the rooftop bar of the Caravelle Hotel, watched...
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Life on the Road Back to Eden
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 14, 1996
...changing slide show. The graceful French architecture of the public buildings around the citys garden squares gives way in Cholon, Saigons invigorating Chinatown, to Buddhist temples with roofs curled like Aladdins slippers and guarded by mosaic dragons...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cholon  - 2 results

 
 
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Cholon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHOLON cholon , Fr. sholoN , district and former city, since 1932 part of Ho Chi Minh...on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai. Cholon is the Chinese section of Ho Chi Minh City; it is connected to the citys...
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Ho Chi Minh City
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...capital of Cochin China and from 1887 to 1902 was capital of the Union of Indochina. For administrative purposes Saigon and Cholon , on opposite banks of the Saigon River, were merged in 1932; in 1956 the two cities were included in the new prefecture of...


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